I was far worse off last year around this time when I registered and was desperate to dig myself out of it. What I thought was my first 'relationship' at the time was a simple facade generated by horrible admins of a forum I didn't gel well with, to get me banned and publicly humiliated there because of it.
They laughed at me after, saying how pathetic my life had to be, and how obviously the only girl would could ever like me would be fake.
I took that bullshit as only fuel to prove them wrong. I got out more than I ever had this year, went back to the shoe shop to seriously begin interning and just being social way more than I ever.
I also got far more serious about my finances and self-employment and have doubled what I was earning in that year, and by now have tripled it. I can't stress how anger can be a great motivator.
On top of that, I went back to forums and finding communities, and it was later that year I actually did meet my first actual real girlfriend, and later on after that one, something equally serious as well; all within that same year.
This forum was but a brief stop at the time in finding places. Honestly, I'm upset I missed this forum in its hayday, because it seems like now there's only activity in forum games, which I personally don't think the ones here are that fun to make it the ONLY thing to do.
It was fun reading older posts (like now) and maybe posting a topic of my own, seeing responses, and finding some of the new serious topics too, but those were far between and overall there just wasn't enough to do. And there were too many people throwing pity parties for my liking, so I left and went to the other places I eventually wound up meeting the girls.
And I came back after both of those had ended, feeling a need to hopefully make new friends who could relate to how I was feeling. I'm past trying to force a girlfriend hunt (which almost seemed like what I was doing this time last year more than anything) and just want to be around like-minded people who might offer solutions to problems, befriend some hopefully, and help out others too.
I find it's best to keep moving forward, but go with the flow; it's worked for me this long, so I know that's the right approach. Every mistake leads into so many more possibilities, and without our failures we wouldn't have any real progress.
I'm here again and where I'm at now, so far ahead of last year, simply because of those idiots trying to knock me down. So maybe I should thank them, haha.
It's still a bit inactive for my liking, but there's still things of interest to do when I'm not keeping myself busy with other aspects of life.