Plot twist: OP is a burglar.

I like my home. It’s quiet and comfortable, I’m surrounded by things and people I like. Unless I have a reason to go out home is where I’d prefer to be.

I too used to go into a LOT of homes every week for many years. As a medic I always took it as an excellent sign if the people I saw were just sitting there. Rather than lying on the floor unresponsive.

Beyond that...

It's your life, do whatever makes you feel comfortable. If taking quiet time and just sitting and thinking in your home is good enough for you, fuck the haters, keep doing what you're doing.

I peek through a lot of windows each week. You guys would be surprised how many people just sleep in their bed. That's it. That's their life.

I mean what else do you expect me to do, the only reason I even have pants on is because a stranger is in my apt doing something.

I used to do location scouting for films, I was surprised at how many people let me into their house and poke around just from knocking on their door with a clipboard of location agreements.

Also, unless they're going to pay you a lot, don't agree to be a film set, even the best crews scuff floors and dent walls. Shoot days are a frenzy when you're trying to jam stuff into the least amount of days feasible

"These people definitely wouldn't be doing anything differently if I wasn't here" uh huh

Sitting? In the sitting room? Disgusting

I retired at 38 years old (20 years of military service, plus 100% disability got me there) and I pretty much just sit around my house all day now.

I spent 2 decades traveling the world and experiencing an extremely busy, productive life. Now I just wanna sit in my quiet, countryside home and enjoy some peace.

It's not that I can't get up and out of the house; I'm not that kind of disabled. I just enjoy focusing on myself for once. Investing in my own hobbies, not being at the beck and call of someone else. No deadlines, no alarms every morning, not worrying about making rent this month or feeding myself. It's wonderful.

I never know what to do with myself when I schedule something at my home, and my social anxiety makes me worried that I'm always going to be judged like this. I don't have any work because I took the day off for this service. Do I just fuck off and continue gaming while the person is working?

Bro burgles houses for a living.

Not doing anything is also doing something

No one said it was consentual.

I umm.. leave my house as infrequently as possible.

But if my dad’s partner wants care long term she can let me move in and split her house in half and..

Leave the basement as infrequently as possible. (But with more chickens)

Jk (?), if I start to take over her property, I’m keeping it. She’s got multiple humans worth of generational income, and the more I have the more I can give to people for free!

People always be breathing