Well, maybe not. I happen to be shut-in, but for the last few weeks i had to go out every few days to do things that aren't "buying food really fast with minimum communication or interaction with people".
I realize that for most people going outside is a part of daily activity, but to me any sort of prolonged exposure is frustrating as hell.
Worst thing about going outside is not people (not that I feel comfortable around humans, but i can manage), not wide open spaces, noises or anything else, but the fact that I end up alone being all alone with my thoughts.
Under normal conditions I can usually deal with the clusterfuck of thoughts in my head (or just distract myself with easily accessible books/movies/music), but outside my mind starts to eat itself pretty fast. Outside brings out worst kind of thoughts and requires a lot of pressure to keep myself from falling apart.
2-3 hours of the outer world drain me of energy for the rest of the day.
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But right now It's deep night (early morning as i'm finishing this post), I'm drinking hot tea, preparing to watch a movie and feeling just fine. Life isn't all that bad to whine about it, really.
I've been watching a bunch of stuff lately, mostly asian stuff. China and Korea (and to a lesser extent - Japan) have that very delicious sort of hopelessness and fatalism in a lot of their movies that can rarely be found anywhere else. Sometimes they go a bit overboard with it though. It's sort of absurd to watch the entire cast of characters die in the final scene and the only survivor to go on a death row. I appreciate that you guys don't obsess about happy endings, but there is absolutely no reason to kill every single minor character just to make a statement. That's just cheap and exploitative.
Also, out of all the junk that I watched, I really enjoyed danish The Keeper of Lost Causes. It's maybe a bit cliche and traditional as far as detective stories go, but i still enjoyed it a lot. Sometimes simply being well made is enough to carry an otherwise standard concepts.
It sort of reminded me a lot about Fincher's version of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, both with plot and cinematography, except i actually liked the characters this time (i can't think of a single non-terrible person in Fincher's movie).
Writing things only in english is easier from a personal standpoint. I'm sort of worried about quality of my english though
I didn't even realize that 6 days have passed since last entry. Time flies, eh.