Do you ever wonder if: you really like to be alone.. OR you do not have the "right" person or

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. I spend lots of my day alone - well, in my garden, surrounded by plants,

listening to the birds. Though it is very nice when people show an interest - come over to ask questions, etc - I get frustrated because people don't really know how to listen - some people have had the same conversation with me, asked me the same questions for years.

I get my dose of social when I go out to give talks at botanical gardens and master gardener programs - then I am totally spent (and my Myers Briggs says ENFP - age has honed that E toward an I).

But I am lucky - after my gardening, I spend time with my wife - my soul mate - and if or when something happens to her and if I am the one left behind, I suspect I will be even more of a hermit.

It is especially tough lately - I am 62 - and it all just seems to loud and noisy out there.