1 Name: ririsroom : 2026-05-11 16:31 ID:Z66Hcy3H [Del]
Hi guys...I'm 23, turning 24 in December and have spent most of my adolescence in online spaces, like stan twitter and spam instagram, blah blah. For the longest time I used my proximity (college, grade school, coworkers) and these online spaces for friendships. But I'm an adult now. And it's hard to just have time to go outside, let alone speak to new people. So, I have been thinking about my old internet friends, and tried to reach out to one, but turns out she had changed her number. We followed each other on instagram, but she had also deactivated recently. We barely know each other anymore, and ahvent spoken in two years, and yet it feels like my heart has completely shattered in two. I think it's the nostalgia. I never felt alone back then as a teenager; I always had people to talk to, and now that everyone's so busy, me included, I feel a loneliness more profound that I ever have before. I need to stop thinking about people I used to know, and figure out how to find joy in my life now so I can stop feeling nostalgic, but my life just sucks so bad in this moment that all I can feel is the yearning for the past connections I had. Does anyone know how to ease this? It feels like these a massive hole in my heart. It feels like the rest of the world has moved on and I'm completely stuck, and I'm terrified of it, but I don't have the means to keep moving, at least not for two years. Please help! :(