no doubt, its not healthy or good to think this way, but as someone who is very isolated this is just how i see things, kinda tryna just explain my own perspective

It used to make me feel really bad in middle school when subs would be really cool and old as s*** & i noticed they didn’t have a wedding ring

one thing to consider tho is we rly dont understand personality that well, like we know some ppl are autistic for example, but they call that a spectrum, then theres all these other personality disorders and mental disorders, so many reasons why one might be alone or be super introverted

for example apparently i have a hearing disability where it takes me longer to process what people are saying than normal. if that wasnt the case maybe id be entirely different who knows

Substitute teachers are either the most genuine people you'll ever meet or horribly rude people.

Maybe they had to move to a different state and had bad luck finding new people eheeem

if you have great social skills, then its easy

Even people that are married die alone

what percentage of gen z do you think would have "great" face-to-face social skills?

What significance does marriage hold for you? why do you think people who are unmarried and older are less happy?

from personal experience, i think i'm a solitude-y person bc my friends have always had different activities/hobbies than mine. like my hs friends were jock kinda kids and i was a music/PC gamer kid, so i had that community but i'd have to do the things i really liked to do alone

capitalist alienation

I am alone it’s because when i try to communicate with other people they dont have anything id like to talk about with them because my interest is in other stuff than most people

Luck/Fate

Born alone, die alone

More so “aw this good person would be perfect for someone I hope they aren’t lonely”

But I was like 12 with this thought

no b****es

im alone asf but i think its much more on me than I'd admit at first. A lot of times I'll catch myself thinking like "damn being alone sucks" but then it's almost always as a result of my own choices that I end up alone. and tbh, I've grown pretty comfortable with it. I really don't mind at all being alone, and I think that's enabled me to properly value the friends I make.

people gettin married... having kids... i was like i just wanna mow hay

Insecurity and not being realistic

expand on what you mean by not being realistic?

attachment trauma

Too much entertainment (movies,video games, TV)

It becomes a comfort zone, in which you place no need for others

SO TRUE