You bring up some interesting thoughts, Janie. There was a time when I did live as a virtual hermit; my idea of the perfect life would have been a cabin in the mountains with a couple of dogs and with very limited contact with humans.

With time I discovered that as I started liking and admiring more people, I started needing them more. I could no longer live like that.

Not so coincidentally, just about the same time that I started liking and admiring other people more, I started understanding myself better and therefore liking myself more.