What I meant by 'doing my own thing' is that I am a recluse. As I wrote, I actively avoid people. I don't care what they think of me, either.
Realizing that friendship is undesirable and vastly overrated was a very difficult lesson to learn. Supposedly, we are wired to be social beings, after all. But, I wonder if that's actually true, since the default setting for humanity appears to be to exploit each other and generally treat everyone like
****.
I've also thought about getting a dog or a cat, but one must have quite a bit of money even for that. Jeez.
Yeah, I wish there were like-minded people out there, but there aren't.
Isolation it is, then!