Well if I was a bazillionaire I would just find out where you are all from, and send private jets to get you so we could go on a wild Sex and The city Movie type trip to Mexico and we would probably all have a riot together.
To meet me, I am the most happiest, outgoing, friendly, first to say hello person you can imagine..but boy am I a, as one poster put it, "fake it til you make it" person. I was basically an only child and I liked and still do like my own company. I also was a bit of the outcast at school..too smart, too serious, a strict family with not much freedom. I didn't have a weight problem as a child but I think I fell in the "geek" category for sure. I think I liked my own company, and the company of my books and my hobbies for so long, thast suddenly one day I realized I really didn't have a clue how to make friends. And while I have had many really nice "acquaintances", I never had a real friend that I felt I could count on unconditionally, at least not one that lived near me.
BUT..my best friend in the world is a woman I met HERE..in 3FC..ten years ago..in its fledgling years. Back then there were chat rooms, and boy do I wish they would bring them back! We started in chat..moved to MSN, started our own little diet chat group on Yahoo...called Twisted Chicks on a Diet with eight other women from 3FC. We have actually only ever been together in real life three times, but we talk every day. I notice some women have offered you PM contact..take them up on it, you could find someone as wonderful as my friend Val!
Also, two years ago I crashed and burned...I think what it is called is having a nervous breakdown, from a combination of job stress and health issues..and ended up on disability. Once I finally got out of bed and took a shower and decided it was crucial to start developing a social network, I started to look for the things I had always wanted to do. I have always done things alone so signing up for things and going to them alone at first wasn't always a huge issue. I took art classes and tai chi, and met some really nice women! Not bosom buddies but a couple that I call, and have lunch with.
I realized that probably many times people have reached out to me, trying to be my friend and I just didn't understand that at the time. I have been guilty of having people give me a number, saying call them so we can get together again..and I didn't follow through. Now to some degree that is because sometimes I feel almost anxious being out in public, and again for a while it is a lot of "fake it until you make it" which can be exhausting. However, there are how many billion people on the planet...perhaps like me, you may find that if you are really aware of it, there are people reaching out to you. There certainly are in here
