What Being A Homebody Actually Is Because It Isn’t Being Anti-Social

Thought Catalog
2 min readAug 11, 2022
Vlada Karpovich

By Kirsten Corley

A homebody isn’t the person who hates socializing but the one who is selective in their schedule and values their time.

It’s not the one who is too lazy to get ready but rather the one who likes ending the week in sweats, in a t-shirt, with no makeup on.

A homebody isn’t someone who doesn’t like partying it’s just someone who already went through the phase and knows it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.

Or it’s that person who never appealed to such a lifestyle.

There’s a comfort in home. A comfort in relaxing. A comfort in Netflix alone and not feeling lonely.

It’s someone who recharges in moments of solitude.

It’s the person who doesn’t suffer from FOMO going through a newsfeed of snap-stories.

It’s someone who is completely okay with where they are right now and confident in that.

And it isn’t that they don’t get invited places they do but they don’t feel the pressure to go sometimes.

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