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Many overtly social people I know seem to use social interaction as a sort of crutch for avoiding solving personal issues. Then again, I have friends who just

• nicklaf 6y ago
  > Many overtly social people I know seem to use social interaction as a sort of crutch for avoiding solving personal issues. Stalker / Solaris director Andrei Tarkovsky's advice to young people and being alone (video): https://www.openculture.com/2015/03/andrei-tarkovskys-message-to-young-people.html?source=techstories.org https://www.openculture.com/2015/03/andrei-tarkovskys-messag... I don’t know… I think I’d like to say only that they should learn to be alone and try to spend as much time as possible by themselves. I think one of the faults of young people today is that they try to come together around events that are noisy, almost aggressive at times. This desire to be together in order to not feel alone is an unfortunate symptom, in my opinion. Every person needs to learn from childhood how to spend time with oneself. That doesn’t mean he should be lonely, but that he shouldn’t grow bored with himself because people who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger, from a self-esteem point of view.