Is anyone else lonely as hell?

Through all the people I associate with personally, professionally, and otherwise...
Through all the hobbies and activities I enjoy...
Through all the experiences I have, and all the experiences I can foresee...
and given the fact that my family is strewn worldwide...

I find I'm short of people I genuinely connect with these days.


There are a ton of different unmentioned factors and experiences behind my post, but would like to see what others have to say about this for the years I have in front of me..

it helps if you aren't incarcerated

Ocean Beach.. taken 11/22/08

ya, I relate. I haven't made a deep friend in years and my old best-friends are just going different directions than I am.

I took the family, my best friend who was my maid of honor took the career.

My other close friend took the family, but now she's going down a road I don't approve of (massively cheating on her husband, it has estranged us).

I've never had deep relationships with my family, just more functional and holidays kinda thing.

Now that my marriage is over, and then I dated a good friend, who became more and is now an exboyfriend, I've lost those two from my life too.

I'm not as pathetic as it sounds! I do have several aquaintances and casual friends, just no one I feel comfortable sharing my soul with anymore.

i am rarely lonely as hell. only usually during a holiday, if i am on my own. or a day that should be special to me somehow.

Not lonely for friends to connect with but seems these friends are all over the place and these days its hard to see them all as often as I'd like. Also ended a relationship recently so friends become more important in one's life at such times. I do need to connect more with some old pals.

I actually enjoy being alone and being able to do what I want to do.

I have few friends that I know for more than a decade, and I talk to them when we have the chance but we do not try to make an effort to meet up, if it happens it happens.

When you TRY to maintain friendship or relationship too vigilantly, I believe that it turns into a burden after a while. Sometimes I don't meet one of my friend for over an year, but its all good still.

LOL who knows, maybe that is why I don't have a GF yet, I enjoy my solitude too much!

I can relate to that bro, since I enjoy my peace and quiet very much as well. Hell, I live in a little town instead of the City (San Fran), just so I don't have to deal with all the external noise.

Actions are not taken for the sake of movement but to serve a purpose. Anything worth doing is worth doing well. Begin with the end in mind.

Hey, you are born along and die along, lonely is part of a human nature.
As long as you are living, being solitude is something you can change and do something about it which is also part of a human nature.

But if you feel solitude emotionally, I suggest you seek help.

whoa whoa whoa.. I should clarify this post was a question to how those 28+ spend time on their own, whether by choice or not, and if they have people they connect with on a truly core level.

I'm in touch with my 'lone wolf' side. 90%+ of my hobbies and activities are solo, where the enjoyment is produced solely through the experience of being alone. That doesn't mean that I don't miss having people I can talk to and experience life's ups and downs with on an intimate level.

I certainly don't feel as though I'm dependent on others, rather having the comfort amongst a certain type of people (ie. people you can trust with your life, best friend(s), husbands/wives, etc).