this can be common with more introverted folk. I do enjoy doing "stuff" once in a while, but in between those times I need a lot of alone time to be lazy and recover! I'm a pretty boring person...

Personally, I'm find the tawdry gossip tedious so I spend a lot of time alone.

I feel the same way. I figure if I have to spend an entire paycheque on rent, I shouldn't feel so bad about wanting to spend time there.

When I was younger, I had some office jobs and was bored mostly, so come the weekends, I sought out stimuli. Day trips, hiking, raves, etc on the weekends. Fast forward to now (40s), I'm busy 6am-6pm, with people literally all day, and I dream of solitude and space. No stimuli on the weekends sounds awesome at this point. Sometimes we need the time and space to recharge and staying home on the weekends fits our needs. No shame in that. Enjoy luxuriating at home!

You sound exactly like me. When I was young, I wanted to meet people, make friends and do all those activities you mentioned. I'm an outcast though and always ended up alone. Over the years, I evolved into an introvert out of necessity and no longer have the desire to go out and "do stuff" as you mentioned. I don't even try to talk to anyone anymore. I want to relax at home and be left alone. Its not really healthy as you say, but that's just where my life is now. I don't like being around large groups either. I always get left out and feel really awkward, so I also think about "escaping" and being alone again.

Because I am the very same.
Happily single, love being alone at home with my books, movies and music. I work out at the gym every day.
I see friends now and then, not often.
It's a quiet, boring life by most folks' standards but it really suits me.
Don't miss drama in my personal life at all!

Nothing wrong here! Personally I prefer animals to most people

Like everything, introversion is fine as long as it doesn't create problems in your life. I'm a lifelong ambivert. We are those people who are in the middle of the extra-intro scale. I do enjoy socializing once in a while, but for the most part I'm fine alone. The danger is when you spend almost all of your "free" time alone, because by doing that one can lose touch with the rest of humanity, or become dangerously isolated. I always think it's a good idea to try to challenge your comfort zone once in a while. You don't want to completely lose touch with other humans on a social level, since by nature and biology we are mostly social beings.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to be left alone. You've worked your buns off all week and what you deserve is downtime. Everyone deserves to have time to themselves to relax, unwind, collect their thoughts and just rejuvenate. @Good for you I agree wholeheartedly, gossip is a such a headache and redundant.

...there will be a time, all too soon, when we are quiet and still forever.

Preceded, most likely, by years or even decades in which we are socially invisible due to age, disability, the diminution of our peer group and our fluency with the culture that would allow us to appreciate what is going on.

That scares the shit out of me, and it lights a fire under my ass.

There is literally forever to sleep in. What there is not is an infinite amount of days to walk outside, learn, try something different, meet friends old and new.

Work is hard, I get it. What you want to do is sack out on the couch, I get it. Well, you should do that. Naps are good. Down time is good.

But there are times when you have to make yourself get out there. The only time you will ever feel anything is...this very instant. For the past is a dream and tomorrow is still approaching.