> If you don’t have fun now, you’ll pay for it later.<p>The societal assumptions bias against introverts in the article is pretty evident.<p>We aren’t miserable. Lots of us are quite happy alone. My own company is pretty nice, or the company of a book.<p>We didn’t feel closely connected to many of the people we were previously spending time with. It is just a lot more socially acceptable (and many are more comfortable) declining.
> “Can you imagine? I don’t leave the house until 7:30 at the earliest!” I nodded sympathetically, but as someone who has been known to have an early dinner myself, I couldn’t help but wonder: “What does she think this is, 2018?””<p>2018 was like this?! I feel so out of touch lol.