I can relate, most of the time I’m a hermit. However, I know that you have an outlet for change; school. I was able to work a lot on relating to others while I was in school. Granted I was in psychology and they made us do it, but you’re in Spanish so they must make you talk to each other.

Most of my being alone is because I choose it. Even now, I could go to the dog park. Except, I think my dog would get into a fight, and I don’t have the energy to deal with that. People want to like me though, and I suspect it’s the same for you, I like you just fine.

It’s balance. A little bit of people time scratches the need, then back to solitude. The reason I don’t go out with people now is that tomorrow I’m playing dungeons and dragons (actually a knock off) with my friends for several hours. That’s going to take a lot of social energy. It’ll be fun though.

The back story for that is actually because of school. I met the one friend in one of my classes in my third year of undergrad, and now she’s my wife’s best friend and we play with her and her husband all the time.

Another thing I did in undergrad was join a student organization, the psychology club. We had some fun activities, and I got to rise into the organization ranks.

I wish I had ever had a job that was as supportive, socially, as school was for me. If I had, I probably wouldn’t leave. When I was working though it was really perfect because I would spend eight hours a day being social, and come home and be relatively isolated.