Solitude

[belamyi]

I can't spend a day without speaking to anyone...

 

[pat grimshaw]

Sigmund said one MUST avoid insanity by speaking to six human beings every 24 hours.

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Now Freud made this dictum before the internet.

I don't know if six human beings on-line is equal to six live human beings. I wonder if six shop-assistants are equal to six human beings?

 

[dpnice]

Admittedly being alone and cooking an evening meal for one person can be extremely depressing. Yet by making it more of a special occasion it can become quite enjoyable.

I believe that the majority of members here eat alone in the evening. So how do you cope ?

 

[belamyi]

Admittedly being alone and cooking an evening meal for one person can be extremely depressing.

How's that?

Yet by making it more of a special occasion it can become quite enjoyable.

I believe that the majority of members here eat alone in the evening. So how do you cope ?

Cope with what?
Ask us how do we cope with people...

Anyway... https://www.amazon.com/Solitude-Victor-Catala/dp/0930523911

 

[PalacePaul]

I believe that the majority of members here eat alone in the evening. So how do you cope ?

For me eating alone in the evening is the time to relax after a long day. Some days I can't wait to get home, be alone and enjoy my meal.
Obviously this depends on what you do/who you talk to during the day.

 

[belamyi]

You may always start a thread that traps some jubbite/s, either out of curiosity or mere pity, so that those responses may keep you some company

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For me eating alone in the evening is the time to relax after a long day. Some days I can't wait to get home, be alone and enjoy my meal.
Obviously this depends on what you do/who you talk to during the day.

That's it!

 

[offthewall14420]

If you have a job where you're constantly talking and interacting with people then solitude is great. It's exhausting to constantly be "on" and doing the rote recitations of sales/customer service.

 

[Essex Boy]

Admittedly being alone and cooking an evening meal for one person can be extremely depressing. Yet by making it more of a special occasion it can become quite enjoyable.

I believe that the majority of members here eat alone in the evening. So how do you cope ?

In the four years and three months since my mother died I've eaten precisely five meals with other people, none of them in my house. The last one was in May 2018, the one before that was October 2017. The one before that was two years earlier in September 2015. My cookery is quite plain but I always make a proper meal of some sort, even if it's only sausages and chips, and usually do a Sunday roast. I've made a point of giving up alcohol (at home at any rate) because I know tippling alone could lead to trouble. People used to keep asking me if I was eating properly but in fact it's the one thing I haven't neglected. The rest of my life has ground to a halt. I won't bore you with the full tale of woe but I've had it in mind to put it in a blog so anyone who's curious can go and find it.

Here's another question. What about visitors? The only people who ever set foot in my house are the men who read the gas meter, service the boiler or fix something. No social calls whatsoever. The neighbours never come in and I never have any reason to go into their houses.

 

[belamyi]

We, the average jubber...

It's either that, or a Marie-Chantal happy family plague

 

[pat grimshaw]

Admittedly being alone and cooking an evening meal for one person can be extremely depressing....

There's no shame in eating 'left-overs'. It is is sensible Home Economics.

 

[belamyi]

BTW, what did you prepare for dinner?

 

[dpnice]

BTW, what did you prepare for dinner?

Chicken breasts with a tomato sauce in which I melted a large bunch of spinach.

 

[dpnice]

BTW, what did you prepare for dinner?

I presume you eat alone so what do you prepare for dinner ?

 

[belamyi]

I presume you eat alone so what do you prepare for dinner ?

Pedestrian dishes like the one you posted: people never cease to disappoint me...

When I think of all the years one feels like a good-for-nothing spoilt kid, and then one grows up to realize that people are not generally better skilled than you are...

 

[pat grimshaw]

Chicken breasts with a tomato sauce in which I melted a large bunch of spinach.

Do you use a microwave? They make almost everything easy.

 

[dpnice]

Pedestrian dishes like the one you posted: people never cease to disappoint me...

When I think of all the years one feels like a good-for-nothing spoilt kid, and then one grows up to realize that people are not generally better skilled than you are...

I can cook exceptional dishes thanks to my training at Madam’s. But is the time and effort worth it when one eats alone ?

 

[belamyi]

I can cook exceptional dishes thanks to my training at Madam’s. But is the time and effort worth it when one eats alone ?

It is

 

[dpnice]

Sitting here eating alone. Fortunately the day has been spent worthwhile with me searching plants and pots for my balconies.

I would like to know what the rest of you are doing this evening.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Watching Gardeners World and after on the bicycle to Amsterdam. Might hit the cruise bars. Might not.

 

[belamyi]

Sitting here eating alone. Fortunately the day has been spent worthwhile with me searching plants and pots for my balconies.

I would like to know what the rest of you are doing this evening.