Recent content by thegreyman

I haven't a friend in the world and I'm not in a relationship. Scared of being this way for several decades to come before death mercifully ends the loneliness.

Hi, I've never thought that I had any great talent, but there has been a steadily dawning awareness over the past several years of just how bereft of any special talent I am.

I'm so bored, I would consider it, even though it would be a bit of a drive for me. There was another thread about meeting up in the North West of the UK, but that never came out to anything. I'd quite like to go bowling, or some other fun activity.

I feel the same way, but for different reasons than you. I don't find it easy to make friends (superficial or deep ones) and am very shy. I've had a crush on a guy from another internet message board for several years. He has mostly been unkind to me, and I've been more focused on garnering...

I, too, came to this board hoping for a sense of belonging. I think that this board is too quiet to easily foster a true sense of 'community'. There don't appear to be many people who post here frequently. Therefore, it is hard to get to know anybody unless you post very frequently. Don't take...

Then you have one more friend than I do. I'd be immensely thankful to have even one good friend.

It's true that a lot of truly mediocre people evince plenty of confidence. However, the way my life has gone so far, it would be a stretch even to convince myself that I am mediocre. I've managed to learn how to speak to people with confidence if they approach me, but that facade very quickly...

No reason why you shouldn't make the most of it, and my comment wasn't about you personally. But just remember that there are a lot of others out in the world who are living a hand to mouth existence and living from one meal to the next. If they can get a meal at all, that is. When you're dead...

I can relate to how you're feeling. It bothers me that I cannot find anyone who suffers from the same social problems as I do, and is also equally unfulfilled in other aspects of their life. I look for others who have the same problems as I do, only to find out that they make up for it in other...

What I think that you may be overlooking is that you have a relatively privileged existence. For most humans, life is pure survival and little else. The OP was rather bombastic and supercilious, but life IS objectively a meaningless accident.

I enjoy travelling, although I wouldn't consider myself 'well travelled'. Mostly it's because when I do have the money to go travelling, I tend to gravitate back towards the same kinds of places (Western US is my favourite). I also think that globalisation has made it too late to really...

Yeah, I can be overly eager to display generosity, because I feel as though I have so little to offer. But really, if it is done to excess, it can make the intended recipients of the generosity feel uncomfortable. I therefore try to keep it in check. Simply allowing people to borrow your DVD is...

Sorry to read that. I once had to spend a short amount of time in a psychiatric ward, against my wishes, even though the psychiatrists agreed that I was not afflicted with any mental illness. Although it's good that such help exists for those who both need it and consent to receiving the...

I haven't actively tried to involve myself in any community. But I doubt that there's a community in existence that I would not be either outright rejected from, or exist only on the margins of.

Feeling unnoticed and blending into the wallpaper is what inspired my username. So I can empathise with how you feel. A good way of describing it is that I find it hard to get on the same 'wavelength' as someone else. I think that I would have the capability to be a kind of background friend in...