user1001 wrote:
I would like to know are any of you in high school right now that are really lonely and that none knows that you exist? What do you do when you feel like that or when you want attention from people? I always feel like this when I am at school. I only talk to like 5 people a year and I never see them again. I am mostly bored when I am at school just waiting for when the day gets out and I never hang out with anyone on the weekend or go anywhere. I never really talk to people when I am at school. Am I the only one like this?
Not at all. I never hung out with ANYONE I knew personally in highschool, I had one friend and I liked none of his friends and basically stopped hanging out with him altogether junior year.
To be honest the whole hanging out thing in general is overrated.. i'm not saying the loneliness isn't real or that you shouldn't make strides to socialize. But with the general crowd? No, usually those people have as many issues if not more than we do and its not worth the time to try to fit in with them.
Just make sure opportunies do not pass you by, there are sometimes one or two you may genuinely click with and have interesting things to talk about. I let it happen a couple of times in highschool. Also if one of those 5 people are people you ACTUALLY get along with, offer to hang out after school and don't mind too much if they reject your offer, it just means the opportunity wasn't there.