<p>I'm lonely, really really lonely. That's it. The greatest problem of my life. I have no one to share my happy and sad moments with anymore. Just me. And nothing feels the same anymore. I miss my friends. Like we have late start (come in 2 hours late) on wednesday and they're all going to breakfast but I can't because I don't drive and they don't want to pick me up. I feel like senior year is this horrible experiment to make me me hate my life. It's working. I'm just tired of being alone. Not to mention a lack of the opposite sex. <em>sigh</em> :(</p>
<p>geez tomk. if someone is upset then theres really no need to be rude.
actually, you never should be. and, its 1030 almost. clearly friend making will have to wait for morning.</p>
<p>I feel like that too sometimes. my friends and i have drifted sooo much over the past few years and now, senior year, the void between us is even greater... They all smoke, get drunk and dont really care much about school whereas i'm sooo anti smoking and drinkign etc.. We just cant have fun with each other like we used to. fun for them is getting high or completely wasted... its so sad. i just wish we could get together like " old times" that's so cheesy but its true. I feel alone sometimes. like, i feel they think i'm this goody goody prude and never invite me to go anywhere cuz they're afraid i'll "scold" them for drinking or i'll just be a stick in the mud, the only sober person, perventing everyone else from havin gfun. they also think i'll snitch and tell they're parents. gah, i never get invited anywhere anymore. not that i wanna be aroudn a bunch of drunk people but .. sigh.. i just miss having cool sober people aroudn me lol. and yeah, lack of opp. sex sucks too sometimes. i just dont undertsand what it is guys dont like about me.. oh well... screw them lol</p>
<p>I feel you celebrian :( All of my 'friends'- whom i hung out with for years- are now hardcore partiers or w/e. we were all sooo tight in middle school, but last year, they basically stopped inviting me to everything. but it was then that i realized they weren't my "real" friends-even though I'd always thought so!- and i started hanging out with people whom I'd always had fun w/ but had never taken the time to know cause they weren't exactly part of the cool group. and now they're my bestest friends :)
so yeah, that probably doesn't help- but just something to consider; people change, and we can't really do anything to stop it. but if u look closely enough, u might just find what ur looking for :) (to quote a random song i just heard :p)
and if not, you've always got ur worshiping cc friends!! :D</p>
<p>and masha, i completely understand. as corny as it sounds, i really miss hte days of dollhouses and playground tag :( i don't like being completely ignored by my former best friend and then being im'ed one day and demanded why i don't come and get drunk with her.
i guess we all have 2 move on, but it <i>is</i> hard and lonely at times.. :(</p>
<p>Thanks guys, I just needed to get that out! Actually, my friends don't party at all, like me. It's just...something is different that I can't put my finger on.</p>
I know how you feel... at the beginning of junior year I came back from this awesome summer program, and it was total friend withdrawal. I came back and it hit me - my friends at home were nothing like the people from the summer camp. We never really hugged or had conversations until 3 AM... they were just... there. Plus my best friend got really into her sport and I never see her anymore because she has practice every day and tournaments every long weekend.
I don't really know what your situation is exactly, or if you even want my advice, but here are some ideas...
1. Holidays are coming - plan a party! It doesn't even have to be complicated... have everybody dress up as their favorite Monty Python character? Bake gingerbread cookies? Study even. So they keep hanging out elsewhere - make them come to you!
2. Find somewhere near your school to hang out... rec center, starbucks, wherever. Go sit and talk.
3. Sleepovers... I don't think there is a better way to reconnect with somebody than to talk to them for hours and hours.
4. Practical jokes. Yeah, sounds weird. Still, writing an anonymous love letter to the cute band student teacher gives you a lot to laugh about. (Dearest darlingest Brendan, You are as sexy as pythagorus. Your hair is the color of brass instruments and your eyes are like copper II sulfate in solution.)
5. Do something that relieves stress. Dance, play music, listen to music, draw, run, do martial arts, play video games, whatever. Get your mind of everything for half an hour a day.
and most importantly...
6. Find something that makes you smile, be it music, a friend, a happy place, or even making other people smile. Remind yourself of it daily.
<p>cowgirl... i'm in like the same situation. i went away on a trip this summer and i met some of the most amazing people and had sooo much fun.... and then i came back home. i'm still having trouble adjusting after so many months. after having a taste of what my life should be like, i find that i can't be entirely happy with the way it is now. i don't feel really close to many of my friends, sometimes i feel like they are my friends only because they have always been my friends, i don't necessarily have that much in common with them. and then there are those people that like to play hot and cold with you and it never stops. and my best friend, and i do adore her, but she is always doing gymnastics. </p>
<p>Anyways, and2006... I totally know what you mean! It's so hard to readjust. It did help me make a lot of new friends, because I was alienated from the others for a while, but now I feel so inbetween. I even filled up my lunch hours this year with clubs so I could avoid sitting in the hall on the floor with them... it's bad, but there are so many interesting and cool people at my school now that I'm a senior and know more of them. I want to get to know those people more, but I feel awful for thinking my old friends are getting boring, even though we hardly talk now anyways. I even have more personal jokes with my band friends from 4 days of band camp than I can remember from being friends with these people for years - we really aren't alike at all. None of them are in music or MUN or any of the other things I do and I'm not really into sports like they are. I really want everything to work out between us all for university, but I don't really think its going to. We just aren't going in the same direction. It's really sad... while I'm so excited for grad, I know it's going to be painful.</p>