{"id":241,"date":"2021-08-20T14:38:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T13:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.nipunadodan.com\/dodanperks\/?p=241"},"modified":"2022-12-14T13:28:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T13:28:02","slug":"alone-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nipunadodan.com\/dodanperks\/alone-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"How I started to manage to be alone for my entire life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just remembered when I was a kid, I didn&#8217;t have any friends, obviously. No that&#8217;s not what I remembered. I remembered that there was a lesson in grade 4 at primary school that involved circles. Other kids were drawing circles using coins. You know you get a circle drawing around a coin. But I didn&#8217;t have any coins. Because I didn&#8217;t need them, as I was walking home after school; so, no bus fares and I had my food with me for the interval; so, no canteen money either. So I asked a classmate for a coin. He has just refused. Others refused too. Then I have drawn a circle by hand without any aids, and it looked better than their circles. They were astonished seeing my drawings lol. I think I have almost never asked anyone a help afterwards. That&#8217;s how I started to manage to be alone for my entire life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just remembered when I was a kid, I didn&#8217;t have any friends, obviously. No that&#8217;s not what I remembered. I remembered that there was a lesson in grade 4 at primary school that involved circles. Other kids were drawing circles using coins. You know you get a circle drawing around a coin. 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