Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

26 years old with no social life

  • 19-06-2009 9:00am
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    Hello,

    I am a 26 year old guy with no social life. My friends from college have moved on now, to different countries etc. Now, I feel very alone. I have nobody to go out with at the weekend so I stay in. I think it would be weird to go out by myself. I tried a couple of courses last year to see if I coul meet new people but most of the people were older and I didnt keep in touch with the ones that were my age. Work doesnt offer any social opportunities either. I live with housemaes but they are from the country and often go home at the weekends. They dont really socialise much during the week.

    I would like to know if there has been anybody in a position like mine. Did you ever find yourself all alone and did you succeed in creating a whole new social life? If so, How did you do this?


Comments

  • #2
    RossFixxxed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭RossFixxxed


    Boards beers? Take up a class or course? It's a bit of a nightmare going up to people in these things and introducing yourself but you gotta admire anyone who does. You will have to get out of the house and do something. Take up some interests that grab you and you should meet many similar minded people!

    IFI: Movies
    Guitar lessons: me lol and a lot of music fans
    Martial Arts: Tony Jaa, Jet Li
    Sports: sporty people

    You get the gist! I'm thinking of (re)learning guitar properly and I admit I'm a bit shy / nervous of group lessons but excited to get moving... once I find some!


  • #3
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    Well, i know plenty of people who joined a club (like a rowing club or whatever) and have made plenty of friends through it, and in fact, are only friends with those people now. This is a bad thing for them, as they have lost their old friends, but it is also a good sign that you can create a network of friends entirely from one source, as it were.

    Good luck with it, and I'm sure you'll be fine!

    One hint, don't be too forward about asking people to go for a few drinks, make it seem laid back, as if you go out for random pints with people all the time.


Advertisement