Colour Me Greenwich

I often don’t feel like socializing, and I often myself on the verge of canceling engagements with friends. Sometimes I do cancel them. But almost invariably I regret it. I resent the effort it takes to maintain relationships or meet tedious obligations that family and friendship can impose, and yet I know that isolation is very bad for me. I know that my happiness depends, in large part, on human contact and intimacy. And so, as I do with everything else, I do it and reap the reward, or I don’t do it and suffer the consequences.

—Voluntary Madness by Norah Vincent (via quiettemperament)

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