Isolation can be, in the simplest way, very bad. For the past five years I had been cutting myself off from all social contact in my life. I stopped talking to friends, tried dropping out of school so I didnt have to see people, and bascially went into a severe depression. I tried convicning mysleff that people werrent the effort anyway, and thought of all the negative sides of being with people and chancing opening up to them. But, the past couple months have been... a revalation. I've started talking to people I see at school and its made a tremendous difference for me to just be in someone elses company. Things sort of happened in grade school that made me rethink how I see ppeople and my social skills started going down hill. For me, I just didnt trust people and was afraid of their judgment, but i ve been doing a lot of self reflectment and what not and have made realizations that I never would have imagined I could realize.
I just wanted to say that getting out, forgetting my fears and worries for a moment to talk to someone, share a smile with someone, was really... liberating. It was difficult, but I couldn't be happier with myself for letting other people into my life, even if it was only a breif encounter.