Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé … - Anneli Rufus

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Anneli Rufus

Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your crotch while jabbering about themselves, loners are curious, vigilant, full of surprises. They do not cling. Separate wherever they go, awake or asleep, they shimmer with the iridescence of hidden things seldom seen.

Being Alone, Focused, Loner, Shimmer, Solitude, Things

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Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, ‘Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,’ but it’s really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating.

Giving, Mean, Smaller, Socializing, Thinking, Tired

The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.

Fabulous, Loner, Loners, Looks, Vulnerable

After what others would call a fun day out together, we feel as if we have been at the Red Cross, donating blood.

Blood, Fun, Together

We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.

Absent, Distance, Mean, Miss, Patience, Thinking

We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't understand.

Course, Degrees, Drains, Eye, Overcoming, World