I have  overly protective, overly providing, overly loving parents. Need I say more? I am lucky and I am 21.
I have a new good job, good acads and still studying. Â I get everything I want, need, wish for, often before I wanted/needed/wished for it.
I don’t drink or smoke or anything intoxicating and I am still virgin.
And all this feels good.
But is having a good family and everything you need enough?
I don’t have many friends. I am a loyalist and dependable.  I have some good friends and some mad people around me. Sometimes I have lost friends. I don’t feel bad for “losing them” but I feel bad for the time and effort I put into building those friendships.  Sometimes I miss those good times, but reconnecting is more like just occasional hi’s with people who aren’t worth it anymore. When things go wrong, it feels like I never had anyone and I lost everybody and I can’t bring myself to see the good around me.
Like the saying, we are often still looking at the closed door that we don’t see the new one that opened for us.
Yet I think of those silly mistakes, embarrassing moments and I can’t laugh it out. I feel insulted, humiliated and suicidal. Â I feel like a loser to think of those people I so fondly and affectionately mixed with but I was just a time pass for them. A hang out material but no where close to a good friend.
I can give in the details but I am not in the mood to over-dramatize and make this sound too sad.
I feel embarrassed that I have so many things to be done. Responsibilities to take care of but I am hopelessly worrying about the lack of friends….instead of working or doing my studies or meeting the immediate deadlines and living up to my parents standards and my own.
I have had my own regrets and negative experiences that haunt me now and then and make me feel suicidal. Some fights with parents. Some with friends and relatives. It’s often a result of my idealism. I expect people to be loyal to me. Stick up for me. Honest to me. Transparency.
I would like to be believe I am a good person but if I retained very few close people and lost many, I can’t simply complain the world is bad, it perhaps means I am. Perhaps I am repulsive.
I have had suicidal thoughts especially when I’ve had fights with parents. Most of them were when I was in school (less than 17 years), after that I just had the thoughts but never had the guts. After school, life was more happening (both fun and humiliation together) yet I had a curiosity to see what tomorrow is like, so I didn’t feel suicidal but I feel so embarrassed  that I want to go away where no one can see me.
Maybe I don’t mind dying in a painless way but that’s wishing for too much. Life’s pains are more tolerable than painful death. But yet……….
I just hope someday I make friends who will stay with me forever. F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
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If you wana talk with me, we can. Im always up for talking. So send me and email and we can go from there and whatnot. So dont hesitate to send me one.
And yes, i am sitll looking for a good friend too. Everyone is too. LIke you said, you are lucky so you’ll find someone. just give it some time.
(silly.snowball@Yahoo.com)
i understand. a lot of life is stupid, especially in america. it’s called gazellshaft or some german word like that. we’re all insensitive to each other as friends. friendship is fleeting and impersonal. it’s like this because we’re inherently evil, we don’t love one another, it’s not natural to love – selfless love, i mean, not human ‘love’/lust.
the solution? He’s always been here. do you believe in God? it seems like that’s all you need now – because He’s a perfect friend. He’s a constant friend, and He knows what love is. He is love.
you seem very nice to me. repulsive? i wish the world wouldn’t make you think that. please don’t.
please read my post here: http://suicideproject.org/2009/12/please-read-this-2/
i would really love to do anything for you.
please take care!
daniel
Thanks for posting on mine:
http://suicideproject.org/2009/12/perfect-life/
Feel free to e-mail me. I will be your friend, though, I’m not always good at the keeping in touch thing.
Don’t feel bad in wasting time and effort for trying to build friendships. Throughout life we gain some friends and we lose some, which I have lost many, but in reality everybody can only count their true friends on only one hand.
Don’t worry, you seem like a good person, you will find someone.
Your post really resonated with me. You mentioned honesty, loyalty, people standing up for you. And you criticize yourself for these expectations, perhaps expecting to much of people, perhaps you’re bad. I’ve lost many friends for having these same expectations. And I’ve thought similar things about myself. More recently, I’ve distanced myself from family. I’m nearing a point where I feel like I have nothing left to lose. I don’t have any advice for you, but I do want you to know that your message has let me know that I’m not alone. You aren’t either. I’d really like to talk with you sometime.