I moved away to attend art school in a city where I had no friends or aquantinces.  After 3 years of frustrating myself under the impression that I had the passion for visual art I quit school and decided to move on, inspired by a then-freshly developing relationship with a young lady.  I had a few friends at school but lost touch with them as they either left the city or our common interest dissolved.  Since then I had taken up a 9-5 and spent my time devoted to writing music/selling records/mp3s and the aforementioned young lady.  At the time I was feeling pretty satisfied and didn't really see a need to socialize outside of that. It was a pretty intimate relationship that I took seriously and to this day I'm lost to understand how things went so awry.  After about a year she decided our romantic interests no longer met and that we should just be friends, a strategy that has not been copacetic.

Dismantled, I struggled to focus my energy on my hobby with some success.  I did an album, I toured internationally, I rubbed shoulders with some pretty high level people in that scene. Made a few friends but they live far away and are quite busy themselves.  Music industries are exploitative, oversaturated, and ruthlessly commercial and that has left me with some doubt about continuing.  Over the course of the last two years my inspiration has waned and now I'm left feeling pretty dead and empty now that I no longer have that hobby to distract me.

I've not had much chance to make friends or meet people I connect with over that time, and every friend I've had made has grown apart from me.  I go out semi regularly and socialize but rarely connect with anyone, so far never enough to sustain a friendship or romance. I feel somewhat crippled by the vaccumn of intimacy and social support left by the end of my last serious relationship. After all this time I'm only barely aware of my own personal identity in a social context to even know where to go to meet people with things in common - Reddit included. I'm introverted but not anti-social, and right now I'm at the nadir of a two year rut, and feeling especially lost
user
I moved away from my old friends and she moved away, and now I'm stuck in a rut and feel like
assistant
I moved away to attend art school in a city where I had no friends or aquantinces.  After 3 years of frustrating myself under the impression that I had the passion for visual art I quit school and decided to move on, inspired by a then-freshly developing relationship with a young lady.  I had a few friends at school but lost touch with them as they either left the city or our common interest dissolved.  Since then I had taken up a 9-5 and spent my time devoted to writing music/selling records/mp3s and the aforementioned young lady.  At the time I was feeling pretty satisfied and didn't really see a need to socialize outside of that. It was a pretty intimate relationship that I took seriously and to this day I'm lost to understand how things went so awry.  After about a year she decided our romantic interests no longer met and that we should just be friends, a strategy that has not been copacetic.

Dismantled, I struggled to focus my energy on my hobby with some success.  I did an album, I toured internationally, I rubbed shoulders with some pretty high level people in that scene. Made a few friends but they live far away and are quite busy themselves.  Music industries are exploitative, oversaturated, and ruthlessly commercial and that has left me with some doubt about continuing.  Over the course of the last two years my inspiration has waned and now I'm left feeling pretty dead and empty now that I no longer have that hobby to distract me.

I've not had much chance to make friends or meet people I connect with over that time, and every friend I've had made has grown apart from me.  I go out semi regularly and socialize but rarely connect with anyone, so far never enough to sustain a friendship or romance. I feel somewhat crippled by the vaccumn of intimacy and social support left by the end of my last serious relationship. After all this time I'm only barely aware of my own personal identity in a social context to even know where to go to meet people with things in common - Reddit included. I'm introverted but not anti-social, and right now I'm at the nadir of a two year rut, and feeling especially lost
user
Stuck in the past, unsure if I've made any progress on the road to anything better.
assistant