How do you deal with alienation?
rkts: I was thinking of posting a question very similar to this one, though the details of my situation are pretty different.See, I've been alone for most of my life.  Alone in the sense that I've only ever had two or three real friends, and I often go for weeks without having a conversation with another person.As a kid I was fine with this.  I was the guy who always sat by himself during lunch and recess, and nobody bothered me and I felt fine.  I stayed the same until my senior year of high school, when I was struck by a burning need to make friends, meet girls and stop being alone all the damn time.  I made some friends that year, but we were high school seniors, so we all moved off to college and I never heard from them again.Now I'm in my third year of college, I have no friends and I can't believe how hard it is to meet people.  Though I guess the problem isn't meeting people specifically, but getting the acquaintances I make to turn into friendships.  I just don't seem to really click with anyone."You should join an organization for something you're into!" Well, I've looked but 90% of the organizations I see are racial, religious or political, and the rest just don't interest me.  If I could find, say, an OCaml or Lisp programmers group, or an early music society, I'd be thrilled, but of course there isn't one.  Maybe I'm just a narrow person, I don't know.Hmm... I'm not sure now why I'm posting this, but I typed it so what the hell.  submit