Diary Of A Shadow

Mr. Hyde, I feel bad for your lonliness and your isolation. I wish I could help you, but I guess the only way to help is to befriend you here on lit net. I will send you a friend request and hope that cheers you up. Rest assured that a lot of people your age go through this. I remember going through such a spell at your age. It will pass. Do you have any school friends or friends you grew up with in the neighborhood? Perhaps if went to a movie or out for a beer, the lonely feeling will pass.

I’m not much of a friend maker myself, Hyde. Your community center sounds really great. I wish we had a community center in my community. We have one, but it’s extremely expensive and they only offer basketball. I wanted to tell you about my nephew who was very lonely. He found a singles site on the web that was specific to people who are in the same religious group- a very small group actually. He met a really fantastic girl and is now happily married. The part about this that is so funny is that the girl is the granddaughter of a man that on the other end of the exact same church pew as he sat on for years. I don’t know why I shared that, it just seemed to fit in here. Good luck, I hope you meet a lovely young lady, and get health care and find a high paying job as a librarian!

I think that the recreation thing is a good plan. It sounds like you do not like to be alone -- some alone is good, but it is also nice to have a buddy (or nice girl) to share a pizza with, or walk in the wide open fields with. Anyhow this I know -- alcohol is not a solution. But then maybe you were just kidding around.

Good luck with both your book and attempts at socialising.

How about the library? Libraries in our areas run many free courses (as well as reading groups with free cups of tea and biscuits!) which are ideal to meet like-minded people.

I also would like to add that, in my opinion, there is nothing wrong with socialising on the net. Places like our Forum are ideal for meeting people who share similar interests. So what they do not share the same postcode? Over the years, I have made such friends whom I would not replace with anyone I know IRL.

Friends and friendships are hard to comeby at best of times; I don't want to be picky about where they live; they are, after all, one MSN buzz away.

If only you lived in California, I'd invite you to my church. I'm sorry you're so lonely. As I said in that group, I know how it feels but it has long since ceased to affect me in such a way. Have fun at the community center, and forget pessimistic realism, try optimistic .

AAAAAAHHHHHHH! No! Don't listen to Andave, you must not become too corrupted by society. Don't completely abandon the Dark Side.

I hope you'll forgive me for disagreeing with you so much, I don't mean to force you to change your opinions. I don't think you're an unthinking reactionary void, by the way. I don't know anything about you and to form an opinion then would be very absurd!

Well, at least you're trying. I am reluctant to go to events and meet people. I try, but it's hard and I'm not really motivated, I just feel good alone. The part about finding someone single is actually motivating, but I'm pretty sure that if I found someone attractive, I couldn't talk to them anyway.