Hi,welcome to the group.I too am new to this forum,and I've been battling all my life between wanting friends and not wanting friends.When I was a kid,I usually had imaginary friends due to my isolation with being so shy and introverted.At times,I didn't care if I was the only kid around that didn't have any friends in reality.Yet sometimes I felt bad/sad about being such a loner,while everyone else around me seemed to have some friend or another to confide in.Even now,despite having a few friends,mainly those I know from my working at Wal-Mart from 2006 to 2011,I do get quite lonely,especially when I see some guy with his girlfriend of wife,or when one of my friends informs me/us of being in/finding a relationship with a girl while I'm still struggling with that.I do have some intense interests in sports,the weather,writing/being creative,mainly through story-telling,and politics,though I go back-and-forth between intense,and not so intense,depending on my mood.Well,anyway,that's basically about me,so far.