i am always alone.
i have no friends that live near me (within 100km) because i moved away.
in the 5 years i have been up here, i have met no one.
i have nothing to offer.
my personality is barren.
when i worked as an IT developer, i had lots of money coming in and i used to buy my pub "friends" drinks and stuff, and seemed popular, but i knew if i turned off the tap, they would dwindle quickly.
also, i do not think in terms of "what use am i to the world?" or "what legacy am i going to leave?"
when i was a child, i considered those questions.
i thought of the tree of life from the primordial soup right up to us, and every living being has an unbroken line of successfully procreating beings in their 700 million year heritage.
so, if i die without procreating, then my strand of the tree ends with me.
my line stops here.
like a flower at the end of a branch. flowers are the ultimate culmination of the tree.
so if everyone's only reason is to procreate, then no one really is the benefactor of this process until the last generation to exist.
it's like "i don't matter. i'm just a dot in a long line in order to make the future a better place. a future in which i have no place". a long line to where? to the end of life on earth. that's where.
i have never met anyone i am genetically related to and know nothing of their possible existence.
as for the need for company and love, i can not help you.
you feel it, and i do not.
the old shakespearean line "is it better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all?"
everyone i ever discussed that line with says it is better to have loved and lost.
but i believe, for me, it is better to never have loved at all.
i do not mean love in a platonic way.
anyway, the older you get, the more you will become jaded to the painful sense of being left out.
just wait.