>had a few friends in high school
>after high school, kinda lost contact with them after I moved out of town
>nobody seems interested to hang out with me anymore, answers are like "ah man I am very busy, I'll find another time to hang out", then never bothering to respond to me again unless I hit them up
lifting hasn't helped much. Please tell me I am not the only one
Who else has no friends
I only have friends on discord. I don't really see what good real friends would do. I don't like parties. Not like having friends would get me a gf.
You lot are unitonically my only friends.
Shit man, I used to be in the exact same situation a while back.
The thing is, you can't force friendships, so instead just focus on yourself and become 100% comfortable with being alone. It's temporary, you'll meet cool people eventually.
It's important to stop seeking the approval of people you have nothing in common with, it's frustrating as fuck and demoralizing.
Discover yourself and your passions and look at the bright side, it's easier to get shit done without any distractions so make the most out of this.
I have same problem & I'm a girl so don't feel bad. I probably lift TOO much
you can play games with friends. Men were meant to be physically active and play high T games when they weren't working.
why don't you talk to guys from your gym.
You've never had one of those conversations where you feel like you're resonating with each other on a metaphysical level, you feel like everything outside the room where you are is bullshit, and you keep talking until the sun comes up? Then you all go out and storm your favorite breakfast spot. That's what good real friends do. I used to have friends like that and I really miss it.
>tfw the group chat my friends made when I moved is silent now
>Not like having friends would get me a gf.
uuuuhhh....
I've not had friends in 5 years, never been out socially for that time too. Have like 3 contacts on my phone.
there's a new one and you're not on it
>tfw socially retarded
>NEET outside of a shitty part time job that pays nothing
>somehow works out in highschool but years later have no idea how to speak to strangers or how dating works
Did you lose all those friends when you quit doing stimulants? Cos that really sounds like a stimulant specific thing.
I've had long talks before but it wasn't romantic like you make it sound it was just stressful since it only happens when someone is talking about how shitty their life is or talking about politics. I prefer to keep that faggy bullshit online since doing it with real friends ended up with me getting blackmailed. Fucking faggot I never told anyone about his personal bullshit.
>new one
probably multiple, seems after i left our tight knit group frayed and rarely hang out. more depressing actually
No I'm a girl.
*not a girl
Is 24 too old to make friends? I try to make friends from work but nobody bites. They’re always already doing something with their childhood friends unless that’s a lie and they just don’t want to hang out
Sounds like a lie unless they have A LOT of childhood friends. All of mine moved different directions.
I haven't had any friends since I was like 10 years old
I literally have no one to talk to besides people I've met online, more than half of em from Jow Forums actually. Got a gf.... who lives 1000 miles away and haven't met yet... better than nothing though, right guys? Right? Right????
My social skills are just complete and utter shit so I don't bother trying to meet anyone irl. Haven't tried at all. I'm going to college in a year or two and fuck if I know how that'll go for me.
>tfw many friends who try to keep up contact with me when I have barely no time, a gf and a need to be alone. I have been alone amd semi-friendless all my life, but now I just need that solitude, that feeling of calmness. Big ups to them tho for trying, and I still meet them some times.
Nah, it happened when I moved away. As to substances, I was more often than not the sober one. I just really like to have these sorts of wide ranging, rambling discussions about life, existence, big ideas, or whatever. Unfortunately, not a lot of people share my interest and I probably push people away because I come off as too intense.
I feel you OP. I'm home from college for the summer and I've realized not making friends in high school is going to permanently make my life that much more lonely. But I still have hope that I'll meet new people, and you can too. Life is long, just enjoy your alone time for now while you still have it.
All my friends want to do is binge eat/drink
listen op
what people do not know is that we live in the age of loneliness
the ABSOLUTE best thing to do is to be comfortable with yourself and LOVE yourself
this will lead you to be more open with your social life and as you develop hobbies and interest you will find other people alike to you
this is coming from a guy who didnt talk to anyone outside of obligation for 2 years, i had to change my life cause i was literally at the point of suicide
Waste of Satan quads on this sad faggot.
It happens mate, I was once popular as fuck because of my work position. Out of all the hundreds of cunts I've bumped into I've only met 1 girl and 1 older guy that's worth any sort of effort to keep in contact.
I avoid shopping centers so I'm not stuck with the *hows life* *should catch up soon* talks
>be me
>be making it
>friends who haven’t seen me in a while comment on the gainz
>go up 15 pounds but still slim and 32 inch waist
>suspect attractive qt3.14 is mirin’
>”nah that’s confirmation bias, user”
>she seems to follow me around
>”don’t be delusional, user”
>eyes seem to find mine often
>”keep dreaming, user”
>finally she comes over and asks if I’m using the assisted
>never once used the assisted pull-up machine
>take the mixtape Weezy out of my ear
>”REEEEEEEE NO IM WAITING FOR BENCH”
>put earbud back in
See ya virgins, hows being a sperg coming along?
Well here it goes...
>graduate HS
>am Jow Forums sperg
>hang with cool 'outcast' kid
>go to parties all the time
>make friends with his loser friends
>drink a lot
>eventually realize they're just using me for car rides
>they don't even care if i crash or get a DUI as long as i get them from point A to point B
>act emo about it and sometimes go radio silent at them
>reach out to them when im drunk and lonely
>at this point lost all gains and gained 50 lbs and full blown alcoholic
>eventually they all cut me off and ignore my texts
>hit rock bottom once get evicted from apartment
>literally had to move everything by myself with little help from parents
>at one point go to bathroom and cry like a bitch after dad innocently asks "are all your friends too busy to help you?"
>at this point fully understand people are a reflection of you and to be careful who to surround yourself with
I've recently lost weight and am back at going to the gym 5 days a week but still got a long way to go.
Men don't need to have friends to do stuff with. If you have a hobby like a team sport or something you will have friends to do things with or not.
I moved to Japan seven years ago. Had some friends who moved back to their home country. Had a few friends visit, but most of the old friends have families and don't into social media.
I just work on myself. And when we see each other once every two years it's a blast, but then I go back to my life - working, spending time with family, exercising, playing golf.
I know that having a a few friends around is good for you well-being, but most people are a genuine waste of time.
I should also say that before I married, I would always have fuck friends around. You should have a few that you can stick it in all the time.
That's all a man needs.
i had a really close group of friends all through elementary and hs but my senior year of hs i went through some physical/mental health issues (and tried to kms) and dropped all my friends. haven't really been able to get close with anyone since. i'm not and have never been a normie so it's not the end of the world. there are time that i really miss having bros though. my Jow Forums frens don't really count, even though i love you fags
I joined intramural soccer to make friends in freshman year
No-one invited me to hangout later
Wore my class of 2020 shirt once to a game
Dude says is that your gf's shirt
I say no it's mine
Motherfuckers thought that I was at least 3 years older than them
They prolly thought I had a social circle and wouldn't join them for whatever gay shit freshmen do
Dude are you me? I’ve basically grown apart from all the friends I had in high school. I’m in college now, and I have exactly 0 friends. My plan is to move out of my hometown after I graduate in December and find work in a place with friendly people. If anyone has recommendations of nice cities with fun people, I’m all ears.
We’ll make it, user. Don’t worry.
This is the kind of shit that happens to me. People will act like I'm likeable but then they'll all get together and do stuff but won't invite me. I think I'm just too aloof or something, like they think I have my own stuff going on.
Holy fuck I know that feel.
How do I get that back? How do I meet people like that again?
Currently me. Also for the last few months I've been a bonafide NEET for the first time in my life.
>be normie tier guy for most of my life, friends, gfs etc.
>first semester of uni is great, go out with bros to parties every weekend, group chat active as fuck, about 8 of us pretty tightnit, shoot the shit daily. A few of us game together most weeknights when we've got the time. Meeting new chicks.
>couple weeks christmas break
>outta leftfield get intense feelings of social anxiety, melancholy, and heart beating out of chest (panic attacks)
>try to keep my shit together through this
>get shit checked at doctor, nothing wrong with heart
>use booze to try to calm myself down to sleep so I wasn't a wreck for morning classes
>time management haywire, getting getting 10 hours of sleep feels like getting 4-5 used to
>drop out
>lose contact with friends
>get job
>new friends, new gf, life back to normal for the most part
>go back to UNI after a little more than a year of fulltime working
>first semester goes pretty well, but even with the small age gap my classmates all seem like children to me and they look at me like >that 20 boomer in freshman year
>second semester shit falls apart again
>drop out
>lose contact with friends
Now no job, no friends, have to skip another academic year before I can go back to uni if I do. Don't really have a direction in mind. Seems all of the thirst I had for life is gone. The only thing keeping me getting up in the morning is lifting and it seems to be the only thing that I still really enjoy doing.
Your arm is weird weird
Why don't you make new ones?
I don't know that we can get it back user.
I wish I could have this type of shit because my “friends” are fucking idiots
how
>Not like having friends would get me a gf.
Maybe not get her for you, but it'd probably make it easier to meet women through them. Also makes you seem like less of a fucking weirdo to girls who do meet you.
Mine definitely could be but we had some kind of formula going for us because each of us was an idealist in our own weird way.
keep at it user, I've been where you've been. make a better self and better people will surround you.
That's just life user:
>be me
>graduate from uni last fall
>move back home to the suburbs to save some cash, study for the LSAT, and apply for law schools
>Friends grow more distant
>Get dumped earlier this month
>instantly cuts my friend group down even further
>Have like one or two close friends
>Don't really make friends at work because its a family business and everything is done digitally or over the phone
>Run into people, but never really have the time to hang out because of working a 9-5 and studying
It sucks, but that's just how life is. Honestly, I don't mind being alone, it's just living at home that sucks. I'd like to move out but the cost of living is so high plus I'm going to be gone by next summer anyways.
Same, my dad got cancer and I got overwhelmed with anxiety and panic attacks and self medicated with drinking. Friends got more distant. I dropped out of school. I got a DUI by still being drunk in my morning commute. The mandated therapy with my probation actually helped. Moved back with my parents to help my dad. Watching and helping my dad fight helped me turn a corner. Since he passed I got a job with a contractor who does renovations with the skills my dad taught me and I'm thinking of buying our latest reno now.
dammit forgot (you)
Honestly man... same. Friends come and go I suppose.
I'll be your friend
Have you considered online education? Websites like coursera or edx offer courses on par with what any traditional university can offer. You can do it at your own pace and with nothing to stress you out. You can even get a degree though I think it's mostly master degrees that are offered. The courses are mostly free. Check it out. Personally I haven't learned anything in a classroom for years and the see the whole traditional academic system as a load of shit. If you really want to acquire academic knowledge and skills in today's world, you should look to the internet.
I'm 26 and I've been friendless pretty much my whole life, at least since high school. I would tell the story but there's no need to shit up this board with even more pathetic shit, people here are actually successful and normal fellas who hate any of this Jow Forums stuff anyway
I have my three younger brothers, the two youngest who are just finishing high school, my two best friends, and a bunch of good dudes on discord. And you niggies, who I guess I think of as collectively, or depending on the circumstance, one great or several very good companions.
I have friends from high school that i still talk to, but other than my gf I don't really hang out with anyone.
>plus I'm going to be gone by next summer anyways.
thats what you think
>be autistic introvert
>people gravitate towards me/constantly invite me out
Can be tiring sometimes. Going to a buds this weekend and I'd rather just stay in and shitpost. Maybe it'd be more fun if they did things I like more.
Current a 25 year old friendless kissless virgin
>was kinda normal in elementary and middle school
>lose friends in high school, just have acquaintances
>social isolation causes me to not develop social skills and just get angry and annoyed at everything, miserable, but I'm still a "funny guy" who can easily make people laugh but obviously I'm just very weird and annoying with my ADD
>hope things will change in college
>no social development in HS carries over to college so I barely meet people even though I lived in a dorm, in an apartment in town, worked a campus job for 3 years, etc.
>graduate as miserable as ever
>move back with parents where I didn't have friends anyway
>have been here for 3 years, apparently too stupid to get into grad school and can't move out on my own in this very expensive area on my entry level wage
>even coworkers who seem to like me and I am funny with and invite me to occasional social events (bar, restaurant, etc) I basically just sit there a complete mute whereas at work I'm talkative
>so embarrassed and humiliated at living life like a shut in that I honestly don't even want to meet girls or friends so they can't see how I live
>tell no one any details about my life at all so they don't know about my pathetic life
I can't wait until I get the balls to kill myself. I just have to decide how to do it. Maybe I'll have to hire a hitman.
>tfw I had intelligent, funny friends I met in school and university and I abandoned them all because I didn't want to go out anymore
>literally switched my phone off for over a year until people stopped contacting me
>tfw currently have a cute girl talking to me in work and I keep ignoring her hints to do stuff, she has a bf anyway so probably looking to friendzone me
I don't know what's wrong with me. I can talk to people fine, very well in fact when I get to know them. But I dread being thrown into a social situation with people I don't know. I hate parties, clubs, bars because I can never loosen up and have fun, instead I'll just space out and not talk to anyone.
I'm the guy who posted below you, fuckin hell those last three sentences of greentext are so damn relatable. But don't worry bro it's fine that we are not like them, we can still have meaningful lives even if we are alone.
yo tambien no tengo amigos pero no es que yo quiera es que no ay de mi e dea
I had some fruends in middle school but they distanced when they started talking a bit more like niggers, and I started to lose all interest in studies from top percentile. I havent had friends sInce then, though I did have some interaction with people in amateur wrestling school though I started to show my newlY developed power level from years of training. That was 7 yeara ago Time flies. I rarely post anYthing too
Sorry about your Dad man.
>playing in your spare time
Literally child behaviour.
Same.
N-no homo
You don't have a gf, you send messages to a strange woman online.
The absolute state of millennials.
I've moved effectively every 3-4 years for my entire life. It's pretty easy to live without friends when you learn to be self-sufficient. Friends, while nice when you have them, don't provide any utility you couldn't get on your own.
how did you get about getting fuck friends, one of my weak areas is being able to chat a bitch up which i'm certain you will need to be able to do to get fuck friends
>I think I'm just too aloof or something, like they think I have my own stuff going on
that good user whatever you do dont correct them, you need to take that aloofness and run with it
i'm not your friend, pal
>work out to the point of when your very presence automatically attracts people.
>this will guaranteed work
r-right lads?
I wouldn't be posting here if I didn't want to fix this stuff. But overcoming a couple decades' worth of trust issues isn't going to happen all at once.
friends are overrated. the only friends worth having are those you know from childhood. if you don't have one, don't bother. it'll never work out ideally.
I have:
>Some buddies in college I live on the same floor with but don't have a deep connection with and probably won't talk to anymore after college
>A black friend from childhood I play video games with every few weeks if I'm in town, feels more like a burden and wasted time when I hang out with him
>A girl I talk to on discord every day who lives ten hours away and I've never seen her face but we're emotionally close
So don't know if any of those would be considered friends but for sone reason I don't feel as lonely as I used to.
I'm 25 and I work in a bar. I fucking hate it because I've been here since I was 18 and I'm always miserable. All my coworkers are 18 year old high school kids and they're always talking about weird shit. They also invite me to hang out with them but I usually turn them down because I'd feel weird hanging out with high school kids.
I want to try and hang out with people my age but, I don't know how to meet them. My bar customers are in their 40's-50's and they're too busy to do anything so I pretty much fucked.
That's fine.
Join the infantry. You'll have to go through basic and earn your spot, but once you get to your unit you'll be put in a platoon with dudes your age and grow bonds with them and go out to bars and clubs and have a social life, and it doesnt matter how awkward or ugly you are. As long as youre a hitter and not a bitch, you'll be accepted.
damn I miss those high school times of just seshing with friends at a playground at night. That's when those conversations happen
Its hard to find a waifu with being a complete fucking loner though bruh. Lol brb she wants to get married but you got no brothers to stand up. And before that even happens you can never go out with friends because you are a loner. Forever alone. Fuck.
you wanted this, you're selfaware, why you do this!?
I aspire to be strong and self sufficient like you
normies at you age doesn't want to make any friends because they invest their time with the friends they already have.
for our sakes it better work because thats what i'm counting on happening too
ooga booga go back to mexico
Take chances. There is no rhyme or reason to women. Think like a sexual predator.
London
Thank you user I appreciate hearing that
you are not alone
>Had a decent amount back home
> join Army
>get sent to Korea
>a couple gym buddies, but no real close friends like back home
>lonely af brehs
WHY AM I LIKE THIS
BUILT FOR THE BIG BLACK DINGUS
>dark skin
no wonder you lift, JUST
Go to college
I have one and that's my sister. I never got along with people. These days the shallow bullshit is too much for me. People don't read books. Those who do act pretentious.
It's pretty sad but I would rather be a lone wolf
same bro. I moved to another country and all my friend group never see each other anymore. sad shit
>well-known and liked in high school
>used to come here and read posts like this
>"wow that sucks haha would never happen to me though :)"
>graduate hs
>fast forward 8 months
>it happened to me