This loneliness I’m feeling is driving me insane and the more I try to think of what I can do to fix it, the more I realize that It’s not due to a lack of effort or really a lack of social skills.
I’m able to engage with people really well and make them laugh or feel heard in every conversation. Despite this, I never feel like I belong.
Everybody is in their own group and it’s like I’m a guest appearance who happens to be there when I interact.
The times people do initiate convo with me it feels like it because I’m the only person left. Almost like I’m on the bench for a sports team of entertainment. I’ve been told I’m really funny and charismatic and attractive at times and I’m not saying this to toot my own horn or to say I’m entitled to feel connection, I’m saying this because I genuinely don’t know what more I can do to get people to want to connect with me.
And I can’t ignore it anymore either. It’s creating a void that’s eating up from the inside. Have any of you gone through something similar?
I’ve just gone through my first few days of college and made a bunch of new acquaintances. I’ve had really good and fun interactions with them but as all of them are meeting up and having plans together, I’m just left alone. And when I do end up hanging out with people, it’s because I tried to initiate the hangout.