Tips for loneliness?
I consider myself a lonely person. I hope it doesn’t sound like I am victimising myself because I have no intention of doing so.
I logically know I am still young (mid 20s), but I feel like life is passing me by. Maybe I lost the ability to recognise my own successes because they look different from what others seem to praise.
I've compared myself to others my entire life and I know that I shouldn’t. We are all different for a reason but, I just feel like life doesn’t happen for me (at least not the version of life I see in others). I want to reach a point where I can feel genuine happiness for other’s achievements without feeling completely useless. I know I can only do so with God. But people around me pity me more than they uplift me, and it hurts.
Over the past few years, seeing nothing was changing, I started trying to care for myself better, hoping it would ease my sadness. I began working on my appearance and health; I began spoiling myself with the things I always dreamed about receiving from others. It doesn’t erase anything, but I feel like, at least, I am not giving up on myself.
God gave us free will, which makes us responsible for our lives. I know that my loneliness was shaped by many external factors, but I know I am just as guilty.
I don’t know if romance, motherhood, friendships are in His will for my life, but I hope that, if they are, my heart hasn’t harden before it happens.
Does anyone have any advice or even scripture that might help me, please? I would really appreciate it :)
(I hope I didn’t write too much, but if it’s too confusing, I apologise)