How do you deal with loneliness?

[SimuLord]

When I get bored and feel like I need some companionship, I go find a girl who's long on libido and short on self-worth and fix matters. Then I break up with her (or she breaks up with me), I throw myself into my own projects, lather, rinse, repeat.

Mind you this is four days' social contact per month to two months of personal downtime. I don't require much companionship in order to be quite thoroughly sick of people and need my own space.

 

[Resurrectionist]

Keep busy.
Make money.
Hobbies: Electronics, Music, Gaming, Billards.
Always getting out there and meeting new people.
I have to dump a few friends every so often
because I need alone time to get stuff done without being bothered so much.

I live alone now.
Grew up in L.A. and hated it.
Decided where I would be happy, and did it.
Picked a college in a beautiful place with cool people,
graduated and settled in.
Nearest relative is 600 miles away.
Wouldn't have it any other way.

Lately I've been dumping girlfriends.
Resource vampires.
Getting laid is not a license to run my life.

Have been quite happy alone lately, getting myself together,
working on projects I enjoy without inference;
and just maybe the right girl will find me when I'm ready again.

Can't imagine how adult's in the their twenties can live with their parents.
That's just creepy.

 

[SimuLord]

Keep busy.
Make money.
Hobbies: Electronics, Music, Gaming, Billards.
Always getting out there and meeting new people.
I have to dump a few friends every so often
because I need alone time to get stuff done without being bothered so much.

I live alone now.
Grew up in L.A. and hated it.
Decided where I would be happy, and did it.
Picked a college in a beautiful place with cool people,
graduated and settled in.
Nearest relative is 600 miles away.
Wouldn't have it any other way.

Lately I've been dumping girlfriends.
Resource vampires.
Getting laid is not a license to run my life.

Have been quite happy alone lately, getting myself together,
working on projects I enjoy without inference;
and just maybe the right girl will find me when I'm ready again.

Can't imagine how adult's in the their twenties can live with their parents.
That's just creepy.

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[Tourette]

With 2 young kids running around all the time making a noise I long for some peace and quiet therefore loneliness wouldn't pose any problems for me what so ever.
However I do like my own company and when i do spend time alone I look at it as a positive experience and not a negative one.

 

[Branches]

Johnnie Walker Black Label, Stolichnaya Vodka, Jamesons Irish whiskey, and a few anchor steams. Music, TV shows, or whatever else.

Go out with friends one night, Drink at home the next night, sleep all day the next night. Then fill my head with video games and work and netflix streams at work.

 

[The Arc of Eden]

Video games, Music. if those don't work i shut off my brain and hope the thought goes away when I do begin to think again. Or i think about it into the ground as if I'm working the very though into submission... then i have a cigarette, look at some porn, and half a chub later the feelings passed.

Too much?

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

get a significant other. That always helps. I know that was what was missing in my life when I felt like you're describing, I just didn't know it until a good bit after I started feeling that way. We all just need companionship!

Too true, I'm feeling kind of empty in that area ever since I split...

But video games, books, TV, the company of good friends and family help to fill the void.

...there still is a void though, it is just a bit less obvious when I'm busy...

 

[Mr Montmorency]

I stopped feeling it when I turned into a misanthrope. (a bastard, to normal people)

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

Everyone gets lonely? I'm not sure that really applies to me, as I absolutely love being alone and could happily go without direct human contact for weeks on end if the realities of day to day life didn't preclude that. But then, as a self-isolating loner with a non-existent social life, I'm still not actually alone - I have indirect human interaction via the internet, creative output of other human minds in the form of games, books or movies, etc. Stripped of all the trappings of human society and left to my own devices, I would probably starve to death. Assuming I didn't though I think I would eventually go mad, as I still need people, however indirectly.

I never feel lonely though.