50 Reasons To Be A Hermit.

I hope Ma doesnt see your post lest you get the loo brush wrapped round your neck.Thats actually a good reason to be a hermitess.Finding a toilet with the last occupants residue adhered to the pan is gross.

Had to laugh, sooner or later everything comes right down to toilet humour!😝🚽💩

You sound very experienced in such matters.It would seem that Ma is blessed with a good deal more fortitude than most mortals and expect Ma to have good reason to post as a wanna be potential hermitess.I find this a far more gruesome image planted in my mind than any amount of gentlemen cavorting in red tights,or indeed Patchy Petes knees.

If you're a hermit, do you have to belong to Herman?😏

Hi all

I kind of feel like I've been pushed into being a hermit, rather than choosing to be one. I found as my son got older and his needs increased (because of his health problems) more and more people vanished from my life. Most people I knew weren't willing or able to visit or keep in touch by phone, so the friendships died off. I've found that I'm much more picky about who I spend my time with as I get older and I've found some people very draining, so I've cut down on time with them, which also makes the friendship die off. I've also found that my tolerance for drama and bullshit is very limited now, so that tends to keep me at arm's length from some. Plus I've found I've less and less in common with people as the years have gone on. Experiences are different - my friends were applying for promotions and organising holidays while I was applying for benefits and arranging the next round of hospital appointments or the next Tribunal hearing while we struggled to get whatever it was that we were trying to get. So I found it harder to be interested in other people's tales of where they were going and what they were doing and that pushed people away as well. And all of that has made me reluctant to try to make new friends, because I assume now at some point they won't be around anymore and it makes getting the energy up to put the effort in all too much Lol. So I think I would be happy to be around more people (or a few people more often) but they need to be on a different sort of wave length and I don't find that very often. Or perhaps I do but I'm too tired to notice. Lol. I don't think it's doing my health much good. My head is a messy place to be a lot of the time. But equally I find I can meet a couple of people for lunch and after an hour I'm wishing I was at home with my book or the telly on. So maybe not

I think a lot would depend on where you were being a hermit , say up in the Blue Mountains of  Jamaica  in lush forest with a nice cabin would be better than a run down beach hut in Shoeburyness .
Desert island might be good , but you would not want to get poorly .

Im sure its perfectly acceptable to be a hermit in a beach hut in Shoeburyness if one chose.
Hermits are hermits,the location is irrelevant.