I have always struggled with this, down to every detail of my life. When I was younger, I was in a tight knit group of friends but even then I was the odd one out, I hadn’t formed a true close connection with any one of them, and as we entered adulthood I was the first to be left behind. I am an introverted, gay man and have always struggled to make gay friends. Particularly in the city that I live where it seems like much of the gay culture and community lies in extroversion, and going out clubbing all of the time etc… and just recently I have been feeling particularly alone (I know I am not fully as I live with my partner), and the place where I work houses a lot of Muslims. I have seen how tight knit and just lovely their community is, and I feel (stupidly?) left out??? Because I have never experienced a community like that as I am not particularly religious, but I find myself often thinking how comforting it must be for religious people to have support in one another; people that seem to genuinely care for and look out for each other. Even this morning I was feeling particularly lonely while reading a Reddit post on where Millenials end and Gen Z begins and how many people consider someone my age (27) to either be too old for Gen Z or too young for for millennial, and silly me thought “damn, I don’t even belong to an age group!”.
I know this probably sounds silly, but I am an extremely sensitive guy. So I was wondering, does anybody else experience things like this? Does anybody have any advice for me, or stories on what you did to make yourself feel like lonely?