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Noobzilla
October 30th, 2011, 04:26 PM
Recently ive felt like I have no friends, at all. Basically theres a few people in my life that I talk to occassionally that I actually consider friends, but they are all fairly distance its merely a small chat there and then at school. There are alot of people that say hello, and are generally friendly to me but we arnt really friends.

When I was 8 I was put in a foster home for 2 years because of false claims on my mother, i was only meant to be there for about 6 weeks. So my father, being sick of what was happening moved me to where he lived (about 200 miles away). As you can imagine I lost everything. I was constantly depressed and always under the intent that id be going back home, I was in primary 4 and well no one really wanted to approach someone so depressed. So basically ive been like that for 3 years of high school and im now in my fifth. I feel like im in the position where everyone already.. has their friends. I used to hang out with a group of people from my primary school, at brake and lunch. two of those people are the ones i consider "friends" today, but some others began to show hostility to me in a way, almost hinting they didnt want me around and i was oblivious to this. Then one day they tell me to fuck off. Its happened twice both groups of my friends friends. ever since Ive never bothered to try and hang out with people, it just hurts so much that people can be so nice, and friendly and grow hatred over time.

There are alot of people that I could be friends with but dont want to be, like I dont share interests with them. I want to have a close friend, someone i can see out of school, someone to confide in someone to go places with.

How can I have friends or develope friendships with acquaintances in a world I feel I dont belong. Im finding it difficulty to explain what I feel, I dont know if anyone knows what I mean. Really I just have low self esteem right now

botwa
October 31st, 2011, 06:44 AM
maybe you should join any hobby club where people have at least one interest in common with you?
think of anything you like, there are a lot of fascinating things in the world.

I live in students' dormitories that belongs to school where I study and lots of people with whom I've become friends have graduated and it feels terrible.
I thought we're friends like... forever? at least for a long time and it happens so now that they have their own lives that don't involve me any more. We had a really great time together and I guess I just should let go.
There are lots of people around and many of them feel lonely too. Real friends just need some time to find each other. But you won't find anyone if you don't try!
I felt lonely and miserable and jealous that my old friends got new lives and I don't have anybody. Then I decided I don't need anybody at all.
After all I joined phonetics club as I've always been interested in phonetics and it turned out that I can still make friends.

The main difficulty for me was tiredness of opening my heart to others and they just waste it. I didn't feel like I can manage to connect to anyone any more.
Get a grip, everything will be alright one way or another.