I do not really have any social life and no real friends. I know many people in my little town but they are not my friends. I tried to be more social by going to the place of mentally ill people where I met many people but then I was badly verbally abused and I stopped going there. Maybe some people are just meant to live alone. I suppose this may be our sz people’s common problem.
Yes I am alone except parents
I know many acquaintances
I go out to college where I chat to other students
I have company at charity shop but I have no social life and still suffer with schiz making it hard to pursue friendship
I don’t think it’s so that I am meant to be alone that is not true
Everyone is entitled to friendship
Nobody is meant to do anything. Life is what you make of it.
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I belive some people are meant or destined to live alone. There are loners, the quiet types and people who have difficulty making friends.
I know,im one of them. But thats allright, i love living like that. I sometimes wish i had a friend or two, but im a bit of a loner who never have anything to say, so its difficult for me to make friends. Im capable of making friends,i just havent found the right people yet i quess and i should try harder, haven´t really been trying too much.
Luckily i met my gf few years ago, we now live together. Feels a bit frankensteinish, who never had friends but he found his soulmate lol
My symptoms make it tough to be around people, I like being myself and isolating on my computer. I met a girl online and one day wouldn’t mind being with her…I’ve been talking to her for 4-5 years and she’s maybe a state away from me. I don’t really like anyone else more than friends…I get too paranoid and stuff. I don’t think anyone is meant to be alone, but there’s a special place in heaven for those who have been alone their whole life. I don’t mean to preach God and afterlife or whatever but it’s what I truly believe. I’ve been alone my whole life and believe there will be a nice spot for me in heaven. Peace.
Sometimes these discussions go in circles, I recall that last year 2013 we had the same discussion about loneliness and being alone. So what is new, nothing, the same old story 
I am not alone now but I have been painfully lonely in the past. trick is to enjoy your own company even if you feel lonely have hobbies and interests volunteer, help others, get obsessed about things you like. I wish more younger people women especially would try to enjoy theyre single years in our society your seen as not a whole person enless your part of a couple and I think that’s very sad. certain people like to be alone schizoid people and some autistic people are happy that way. theres always hope my friend I was so painfully lonely and then treated badly cause I would accept any company and that is worse than being alone. that was very horrible of them at the mental health place to verbally abuse you that shouldn’t have been allowed to happen. I have no friends either I feel too weird and too odd and my anxiety gets in the way
I can make friendships but I cant maintain them. your not alone so many other lonely people out there you just got to find one or 2 or 3 LOL
i have many friends online but i rarely socialise in 3d simply because i have out grown my old friends. i’m no longer intersted in seeing how drunk i can get on a saturday night. besides which, the 70 quid that i used to spend on getting drunk, i would now much rather spend on other things and i can’t justify spending that amount on alcohol for one night out. yeah it’s fun once in a blue moon but not every weekend. i did all that in my teens. now i’m 40 i’m not as enamoured of getting pissed with friends as i used to be. have a few drinks at home? maybe but not interested in partying every weekend with people in a pub or club. i should cultivate more friendships in 3d though. those with the same interests as me would be nice. i plan on doing that next year aswel as doing a few college courses. i defo need to get out more. i am a very social person to an extent. once i’ve had enough though i like to retreat into my own personal space and write or knit or surf. i have many things i need to do on a daily basis with my kids but now they are older i need to make some time for interests outside the home. that is my plan for the new year. i have no insecurities about meeting new people as i am highly gregarious and willing to put in the effort. i have no paranoias about people and whether they’ll like me or not. i get on with most people. if they like me, great. if some of them don’t then that’s great too. i don’t happen to like everyone i meet so it’s natural to be choosy over your friendships. i don’t think that anyone is meant to live alone. like the previous poster said, life is what you make it and if you allow your insecurites to rule your life then you are not being kind to yourself. so go on, be kind to yourself and get out there and mingle as that’s what i plan to do. good luck 
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I believe that some people are programmed to be alone since their childhood, they may have hobbies such as butterfly collecting (as I had) in which many people are not needed and they may choose not to be involved in sports such as football as I have never really been. These people may see the world from the outsider’s perspective, which makes them so unique.
i think so too if a person is happy alone whats wrong with that?
i think if you are truly happy being alone then great but if you are alone because yo are too scared or paranoid to interact then it’s a problem that needs to be overcome.