I feel the same, people do not have time for me. But i have time for you, if you want. Two of a kind may not be alone.

CaliCoco, you realize you just offered to be friends with a 16-year-old female, right? Typically 50-year-old men don't have a lot in common with teens. I think you can come up with better advice than that if you really apply yourself.

Upset, I don't know if you realize it or not, but you're frontal lobe is not fully developed until your early 20's. That's the part that enables you to do the tedious work of using higher reasoning skills to work through complex and tedious problems. Right now the part of your brain doing all the thinking is the emotional part.

You seem really nice and smart, but your strong emotional reaction is kind of related to where you are age wise. Most people complain that adulting is hard work, but forget that teens are facing higher levels of stress, more difficulty connecting and are under all this pressure to figure out what they want out of life. You need the de-stressing effect that down time and friends offer.

You are right about the world being a huge place with millions of people and it can seem weird that out of so many people you are alone. The thing is, you don't have to be alone.

Friendships are based on what people have in common. The key to meeting people and forming really cohesive bonds is to link with large groups of people who like to do the same things you do.

You described yourself as introverted or a loner. Trust me, you're not. I'm a loner and get irritated when friends call to interrupt my solo activities with invitations to go out and do things. How dare they interrupt my endless hours of hanging out with myself, doing my own thing....lol.

You are feeling this way because you have a need to socialize. Don't flounder so long that you begin having self-esteem issues. That's a harder problem to fix.

I think you mistook underdeveloped social skills for being a loner. You get good social skills by practicing. Just hanging out with other people and talking will give you confidence. Take it slow and shoot for say 3-6 acquaintances. Practice opening up and talking. You'll misstep but so what, they will make an occasional misstep as well.

I am so sorry for what you have been going through. Loneliness is killing. I have been ignored by many people for being myself, for having my own attitudes about life. But, at the end of the day, I remember the quote 'I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not.'
Loneliness really has no mercy at times.

I am here for you, to listen, to understand.............