A bunch of us are going to the beach this weekend. Wanna come?”
The question filled me with dread—which sounds weird, I know. Who dreads being invited to hang out with their crew? After months of not being legally allowed to get together, my friends were finally planning a beach trip as a way to reconnect face-to-face after quarantine (granted, from six feet apart, but still…).
“Oh, thanks, but I don’t really want to go to the beach,” I answered shakily.
“Wait...so you can leave your house finally…but you’re choosing to stay home?”
“Yeah, I kind of prefer it that way,” I replied, as a wave of relief rushed over me. Finally, I was admitting something that had secretly always been true about me: I actually like being alone.
I consider myself an introverted extrovert. I’m not shy at all, and I stay very busy. I was used to always doing something, always scheduling out what I was going to do every second of every day, always in go-go-go mode—until a worldwide pandemic forced me to chill, that is.
This story is from the August/September 2020 edition of Girls' Life magazine.
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