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If You do This One Thing Society Will Label You as Weird

In reality, society is nothing but a puppet that is conditioned how to live and believe, and many are falling for it.

Chris Freyler
5 min readJul 26, 2023
Photo by Richard Brutyo on Unsplash

You just get home from a hectic day at work. You want alone time, but you want to check out that new kombucha bar down the street. You go through the list of friends and acquaintances in your mind who talks “less.” Who is your best option? Why do you have this gnawing anxiety when you desire to do things alone?

It’s no big deal! Just go, you tell yourself repeatedly.

It’s your biggest nightmare, and so many others. Yet there it is, glaring at you, judging you, staring right back at you in the mirror. It is not only your nightmare, but it is frowned upon.

Doing things alone in public.

It is almost like you are shamed as soon as you say “table for one, please.” or “one movie ticket, please.”

You can’t help but wonder if something is wrong with you, or are you being judged?

The judgment that comes with doing activities alone

Looking back, I’ve always been kind of a “loner.” Weirdly, I like people, but on the flip side, I like to be alone. I have…

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Chris Freyler
Chris Freyler

Written by Chris Freyler

Mistake Maker Extraordinaire .Writing from a place I don’t understand at times. I write to help myself, in return hope it helps you. Just another Quora guy.

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