Like I've said before, I tend to be anti-social as well. But something happened today that has me re-thinking this.
I go walking though our house and see through the window my spouse sitting on the porch with an older lady, chatting. I was intending to do some work out there but instead I discreetly retreated so as to not have to interact.
Later I come to find out that my spouse was talking to this elderly lady that walks our neighborhood every day for hours and hours, and she is nice, but I guess a bit lonely. And my spouse said she saw her walking by, said hello, and then my spouse invited her to sit and chat.
They were out there for a long time, and my spouse said that she did this simply as a nice gesture. And I can't begin to imagine how much something like that must mean to that lonely neighbor.
This was going on while I was hiding in the back of the house.
All of this is to say, as I am starting to realize, maybe this doesn't always have to be about oneself.
Just something to consider.