Ever since I was 4 years old I’ve been completely alone. I never really took the the prospects of making friends, and my parents are often traveling and working. My life in high school is mostly me sitting around in a dark house doing homework. Something has been seriously disturbing me lately however. Until now, I never minded the loneliness; instead, bottled it up and stored it as tears. Tears that trickled down the sides of my heart and cut tears in them, shattering my consciousness. This year I sincerely believe I require mental help, but I will get none: my parents don’t care, and I have no warmth in my life. I once had a girlfriend though. I thought she cared about me and I told her all about myself- essentially what I am trying to paraphrase here. I believed in her and entrusted her self secrets- secrets which could harm me if they ever came out. I enjoyed 1 full year of conceived love. It was quite honestly the most beautiful thing I had felt. To finally have someone you could collapse into when you felt miserable and someone who would help you fly when you wished to fall. For the first time, I appeared at a school dance, expecting the worst. But even I had it wrong. I saw two conjoined silhouettes in the distance when I appeared. I stepped closer to see the girl. She was my girlfriend. He was the only guy I thought was nice in the school. For five long seconds I stared in confusion. Then I ran. I ran home and cried for eternity. The next day I cursed her openly for cheating on me. She could have at least told me until then. She had months. But she didn’t. Then came the worst. She told what seemed like everyone I had class with about my cutting. I didn’t show up to school for a couple days, and the cutting, ironically, worsened. I was glad to leave middle school. Now I’m in high school. I’ve failed again. The girl I like is not interested in helping nor comforting me. In fact, I doubt she even cares. She might even be scared of me. Worse for me, she likes another guy. I’ve suffered 10 long years of chasing and getting over it, then chasing again. I can’t keep myself together anymore. Cutting has reached a point where it stopped helping. Even though the high alleviates it, my middle school scars make me feel even worse afterwards. I currently have no friends (Being a guy myself, I think guys are actually really idiotic as far a high school goes. They run around, play sports, fail school, then whip their blonde hair and all the girls flock to them. This includes the girl I like.) why is it that they decide the persons character within less than 10 seconds of seeing them. Hell I don’t want a girlfriend for anything physical, I just need warmth. A warmth that was never meant to find me in this cold, cold world.
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I’m very sorry for your pain. Being alone and having difficulties making friends is hard in school, especially when love is not returned. I never found love in high school, and to tell you the truth now that I’m 33, im glad I had to wait. I was a very sad and at time angry person, and I discovered that people stayed away from me exactly because of that. I scared them, or they had their own troubles to deal with. It’s only when I started being interested in others and helping pthers with their problems that I found companions. Even that opens a can of worms: I ended up always having to listen and comfort others, and never being able to share my own troubles. But atleast I wasn’t alone anymore.
I’m 20. Never been in love. I’ve met people that I’ve really liked, but managed to snap out of it when realization arose. I’m sorry to read this… I’m sure it doesn’t mean much, but I’m a great listener. You can e-mail me if you ever need to vent. I don’t have any friends, so I’m not going to mind.
Thanks for the support guys. It does help with the loneliness.
I’m so sorry for your pain. I am now 28, fell in love once but had my heart broken. I understand you. How lonely you are, I know how you feel. I know how hard it is to find good, reliable, loyal, trustworthy friends in high school. I once had a friend, I trusted him with everything too like you; he knew how much those secrets meant to me: my pride, my reputation, my life, my future; yet he goes on and tells everyone who mean so much to me. I was devastated. I cried myself to sleep that night and the night after that. For years, I cut ties with everyone I knew because I was embarrassed and didn’t want to get hurt again. But these few year, I learned that loneliness only makes me look back to my past more. I have started or tried making friends and they have helped me throughout the year. I just want to tell you, although you may not know me, you can email me and I will be there to help with my experience and knowledge. Cutting is never a way to let the pain and loneliness out. Please take care of yourself; I hope I have helped.
take a trip to a nearby town every saturday, go to a bar, sit down and talk to anyone you want. There are 2 outcomes :
1) you will embarrass yourself
2) you will find friends or even love.
The good part is that if #1 happens, you will NEVER see those people again. Just change the bar/club the next saturday. It’s awesome – you’ll be a ghost.
^ That sounds like a pretty good idea. I’ve been to some bars, on open mic nights. I haven’t gone to one since June. I just sit, listen, and smoke. Now you got me wanting to try this…
it works. You need to trick your brain. It’s like anything else you try in life – the more you do it, the better you get at it…
I’m very sorry to hear about your loneliness. I feel a deep compassion and I too am feeling very lonely. Sometimes the timing in here just amazes me, because I just laid for 2 hours crying, because the loneliness just caught me by surprise, as it always do. And while I laid there, I just couldn’t stop, because I needed someone to come at hold me tight at to tell me, that I was all going to be alright… But nobody came and eventually I just fell asleep and woke op 30 minutes later.
I feel the same as you: I need someone to love. I feel like a have so much love to give, but no one to give it to.
I’ve never had a boyfriend, but I’m the chick that do stupid things when she’s drunk, like making out with random guys… All this because I get a little more self confidence when I’m drunk, but then I wake up the next morning and get rejected over and over.
I always have this silly though in my head, which tells me that I am alone, but I realize that I’m not: all you guy are also broken and alone. We are all just looking for love, one way or another.
So remember: There will always be persons in here, who can help keep you warm. And you can always reach out to me or somebody else, if your scars are getting dangerously deep. So many of us are out in the cold alone, but then we will just have to create our own warm circle, right? 😀