Solopreneurs suffering from loneliness. How do you deal with it?

As the title says, I work remotely and do not have friends in the city. I have in a nearby city, but they are busy with their 9-5 and hanging out with their colleagues on weekends. Living with a loving family helps, but I want to socialise apart from them.

Have you felt that the conversations with your work buddies and away from office buddies are not that fulfilling? Like you might be passionate about so many stuffs but you just don’t have that passion in anyone around you and you end up being yourself, overtime becoming very lonely while still consuming content at high pace. Do you feel lonely? If yes how are you dealing it?

Graduated in 2021, got an okayish job, still doing well career wise. I tried my own startups too. But I've never got the feeling of "yehi karna hai yaar life mein". All the friends are now disconnected. Doing WFH since forever and don't even have good connections at my current org or in my previous org. Tried therapy as well, didn't help much, they recommended medications, but that I'm not willing to do as of now. I don't know whether it's just me or this gruelling feeling of existential dread will ever go away. Maybe software engineering as a domain is like that, encourages introverts and introvertedness. But idk something is not right. No friends, no space to vent out frustrations. And it's been about 3 years since I last had a conversation with the opposite gender. I'm in complete mental mess, only thing keeping me alive is probably gym. I just want something to cling on to, to know this is not the end and this is not how it will end.

Nowadays, it is difficult to maintain friendships (old friends) as many are pursuing dreams and for that one has to shift for other countries/state and the rest busy with there jobs and family business. New friends are difficult to make where people already have there groups of bunch of friends where they don’t want anyone else to join (old friends groups) & also as the smaller groups are easy to manage and for execution of any plans. While growing up due to change in habits (smoking, drinking, etc) of our friends we did lose few.. and now they don’t call me up for any plans! So, basically i am left alone with nobody by my side apart from cousins of same age (more or less)! Most of the time, I spend my day working on my business.. or at times, working out or reading books.. But at times, i am left alone with my own thoughts and that feeling at times is exhausting and frustrating and sometimes this loneliness becomes toxic! Can anyone help.. how can we make friends in midst of all this?

I work as a data scientist in a remote setting. I meet my team once a quarter. Here in Bangalore all my friends and my wife have work from office so I end up getting too lonely working from home. Also, this has shrinked my network compared to before. How are others in the city handling this? What forums, IRL places do you visit to counter this. Imho, This surely isn't great for long term career prospects.

I am 21 years old. I have good offers (20lac+) from good companies, but I am not happy. I always feel that something is missing in life, I don't know what and why I feel so. I tried to get in a relationship, but whenever I express this feeling, things get bad between both of us. I really want to love and get loved. I have been living my life alone for about 3 years now. I want to make friends, and I want to be in a relationship, but the last 3 years have not been nice to me because of which I don't like going out and having fun. I was in a depression and a workaholic nerd for the past years and feel that now I have got wired in such a way which is not letting me have fun and enjoy life. I find myself lonely. Whenever I don't have anything to work on, I get anxious, and I get this question, what am I doing with life. Maybe I am feeling lonely while writing this post and may sound little gone case. Open to your suggestions, do share your stories if you have been through this phase. Is it normal to feel like this?

Looking to know experiences of folks who went this path and are blissful with the renewed priorities in life. I don't see -any hope or direction where my current scaleup startup I work at is going -why I have to bear the brunt of yessmens of the ceos who are just collecting paychecks - before they themselves can go solo as consultant/content creator/leader. -point in playing lottery with another startup job switch of landing in another similar environment -point of ruining my prime late 20s social life to collect pay checks when I have enough f*uck you money -future of work will only need me do 15hrs/week in half a decade because of AI and blackmirror like world. -poiny of current career trajectory as currney job will be replaced to need 80% less manpower - again genAI stuff.. So as I embark, want to know more stories and rides both successfull and failures by your own subjective sense!

I am penning this post because so far working in corporate I have realised that somehow we all are going through the same shit. Not everyone needs an adventure in life and start a business. Some of us like our stability. But with that stabilty comes loneliness. Everyone in corporate ( talking about bachelors) is looking for meaningful relationship with good sex. Approaching the other person in office is difficult. Half of us don’t believe in marraige but will get married to someone else’s love one day. I dont know what is the solution to this. More importantly I dont even know the problem. But something is missing. I see everyone in the morning wearing badges sipping coffee trying to gather energy just enough to survive the day. There is no gaurantee of job, life and happiness. Somehow we all have become incapable of living. We are just surving. These are mixed thoughts just like my morning mails.