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Hello everyone. My name is james. I came here because I suffer from loneliness. I hope participating here will help ease the anguish. I've read literature on loneliness yet none seem to offer solutions to comfort oneself. I'm 26 years old. I've been lonely for over a decade. I'm very advanced intellectually which makes it difficult to relate with those my age and those slightly older dismiss me for being young. The ones I could relate with are older silver-haired retired pensioners -- probably because they're nearing death and as a result are less attached to material things -- and other social outcasts -- because no one else would listen to them. Is this common?
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But when you say you are feeling lonely, do you have friends you can talk to but just feel lonely? Or are you actually isolated and struggle to talk to anyone?
There are so many people out there that there are people who you will be able to engage with and have an intelligent conversation with, you may just need to seek them out perhaps in evening classes or whatever. But at the same time you shouldn't be afraid of having 'down to earth' conversations about your favourite foods or whatever funny anecdotes happened last week as really with conversation a lot of the time it is less important what is said, and more important that it is there as a social / bonding thing between people. (e.g. talking to a stranger in the street about the weather!)