friends help: How do I get used to being alone ? - Help.com

You never get used to it, you just handle it as best as you can.

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Funny thing is (as I see from this site) is that there are quite a number of people who have no friends and are lonely. Shame really if everyone who felt that way could just join forces, issue would be resolved. If anything, take peace with the thought that you are not the only one who feels like this.

Maybe every time you feel pain from being all alone you can use it as a reminder to do something that brings you back closer to friendship in the social world.

If you don’t like being alone, then don’t be alone. Join clubs, try out for community theatre plays (build scenery if you can’t act), sing in a chorale, volunteer at the local hospital, take adult-education courses at night, find a church community, invite people to your home for dinner, become a Big Brother or Big Sister, pitch for a local softball league, sign on for a knitting or quilting circle, deliver Meals on Wheels, answer the phone for a hotline, tutor kids in your area of expertise, participate in a book discussion group at the library, lead a Boy Scout or Girl Scout troop, entertain exchange students from overseas, drive voters to the polls on election day, take adult-education classes in electronics or Spanish language or underwater aerobics, learn square-dancing, teach crafts at the local senior center, stuff envelopes for your favorite political candidate, deliver homemade cookies to your neighbors, run for office (student government or school committee or condo board or town council), make and serve meals at a soup kitchen, or adopt a pet or two from your local humane society.

The only people who are alone are the people who want to be alone–those who believe that all these and other ways of connecting with other people are just too darn much trouble.