Let me tell you my problems. Will you listen?

I don't really entirely know the point of this message, but I've been watching a lot of movies lately and not leaving the house, and now it seems like the people on my TV screen are more real and know me better than the ones that are in the real world. I'm home from college for the summer and all of my high school friends bore me and all of my college friends live far, far away. I, of course, have no job because I'm a dirty, lazy hippie, and all I can do is sit around. (But more because despite my resilient efforts, no one has hired me.)

What the fuck am I supposed to do to fix this? I really want to leave the house, meet new people, and I don't really know how to go about doing that. I honestly wouldn't even know where to go to meet people. I can't think of anywhere.

I'm just so frustrated. Smoking weed with my friends and college and going on crazy adventures are just distant memories. Now, I'm stuck home with no one to hang out with and just kick back and be creative. Am I doomed to a summer of boredom? Also, can anyone else relate to my great dilemma?

 

Heya MaskedPotatoe, I listened to your rant.

In my mind, I saw you switch off the TV and leave the house (+ the blues) with a back pack and a smile, and go hiking on your own.

Then, along the road, I saw you doing charity work.


Shutting up again

 

Thanks for the input.
I think I'm going to be doing that charity thang.

Hiking in the woods by myself seems a bit unsafe to me, I just don't trust myself. And plus, it isn't like I need MORE solitude. That's kind of exactly the opposite thing I want to do at this point.

 

Dude, I'm in the same situation, minus not having a job. I just moved from oklahoma and left behind all of my good college friends. So, besides working nights, I sit around all day doing nothing. I just picked up Geocaching today as a new hobby for something to do... it's pretty bad ass, you should look into it. Do you write? or draw? I enjoy the time to myself honestly, you won't be there forever dude. Hit up a local sports bar, you can meet some really interesting and crazy people in there lol.

 

Perhaps if you spent more time with people in the "outside" world, you'll gradually start relating to them more and more and on top of that realizing how many things you guys had in common in the first place.

 

yeah sounds about like the town i live in, there is absolutely no where to go to meet people. when i say people, i'm talking about people who actually seem like they would be cool to hang out with. sure we have a few crappy little bars here, but the people who go to those bars are not my type of people. in this town we seriously only have 1 grocery store, a few bars, and mcdonalds. it kinda sucks. so yeah, i can relate to not being able to find a job ( i have one, but a different one would be great) or people to hang out with, i have no advice though as i have been trying to figure this one out for a while now.

 

I'm not some kind of hermit. I'm actually a pretty social person. It's just that going to college has shown me that the "friends" I was with in high school were only my friends because our families happened to live in the same community. Hanging out with them now is pointless, I just sit there and wonder why I'm doing it and how long it'll be until I won't have to hear them talk anymore. It's kinda like how now that I've seen how good it can be and how I can truly connect with people on multiple levels, I can't go back to just hanging out with these people anymore. I know I'm not alone in feeling that way, either.

And yeah, starscream, it's good to know that I'm not the only one who feels this way. I do write and draw, and that takes up a lot of time, but I need human contact. (It's the writing that makes me feel so alone, I think.) And a sports bar? I don't think I have the balls to enter a place like that by myself, and plus the kind of people I'd meet there aren't the intellectually stimulating sort I'd be looking for. And Geocaching? I'm gonna google that. I have no idea what that is!

Also, gawd, it's 3:00 o clock in the morning, you'd think I'd be sleeping since I'm so bored. Nope, I've been up for 19 hours for no reason! Hahahaha maybe I'll just sleep my problems away and hang out with the people in my dreams....

 

do you have a car?
if you do try goin to some good concerts
you dont even have to get tickets
just hang out
smoke with some people
meet people around there
and maybe consider moving

 

I can really relate to almost everything you said.
I lost my job in the winter and haven't been able to find work since.
I'd like to get out and meet new friends, chill people, but that's a lot easier said than done. I'm enjoying this solitude and time to create and explore but it gets lonely.

Wish I knew what to suggest to you, but I'm kinda in the same boat.

 

hit the local bar--you can smoke b4 you gret thrre