I know when most people say things like “I have no friends” it’s dramatic and not real, but I have LITERALLY no friends. Everything fell apart last year with my old online friends, my last real life friend has started to distance himself from me, and I only talk to my girlfriend who I think is honestly started distancing herself from me. She doesn’t want me making friends and I was cool with it, I let everyone leave themselves, and I moved on, but I am so lonely. When I leave my house now, I plan to make friends who hope don’t leak my address online to their friends!
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Dude, reach out if you wanna chat
I’m not going to tell you not to worry about it, you’ll worry anyways. What I can say is that you want friends who like your genuine self, not some carefully curated version of you designed to impress the neighbors. Be authentic, do things because you enjoy them, not to look cool or because someone else likes them. Never forget yourself in the name of companionship…a bad friend is worse than no friends at all, and being forced to do something you don’t like because to admit it’s not your thing would risk alienating the person who bonded with you over your mutual love of horse testicles.
Put yourself out there – go out of your comfort zone and you’ll be surprised at what you find.
It’s not so much that you want friends – but that you want connection and I think that’s what almost everyone truly wants.