Photo: The lone path to…what? (Howth, Co. Dublin, Ireland)

I’ve come to find that living in Ireland has made me a bit of a loner. It’s not that I don’t have amazing friends here, because I DO have amazing friends here. It’s not that my roommates aren’t great, because they’re really great. It’s not that there isn’t tons of social things to do, because I live in the pub capital of Europe. It’s just that for some reason I’ve become a hermit.

It’s funny, because in the past, I’ve NEVER been a loner. 

I used to get so uncomfortable with being in a house by myself that I would call everyone I knew. I would pace until my roommates got home and go a little bonkers! That’s how I’ve been my entire life. That’s not the case here. I like my alone time. Now, sometimes I even prefer doing things alone. Maybe there is something in the air?

I suppose being okay with being alone is a good thing to learn. Once we start our PGL’s, we’re alone a lot more than we ever were during college. It’s just a fact. I’ll be really alone next fall when I move to wherever I get into graduate school. Ireland has been really good practice for me in this sense. So, I can’t really complain. It’s just different.

PGL is just…different.

- Jen