Hey, everypony. I'm back again with another post. This time, I'm writing about one of the biggest thing I deal with on a daily basis; feeling alone.

I live in a city of 100,000, give or take. I'm surrounded everyday by people, just like you and me, who go about their daily lives, maybe having the same interests as I do. I think about this, and yet, my mind always wanders back to one thought.

I'm alone.

Now, I know I'm not ACTUALLY alone; I have friends. However, I know no one on my college campus except my roommate. All of my friends either go to different colleges and I don't speak to them on a regular basis, or the ones I DO speak to every day live miles away. Example. My best friend, one of the only people I'm close to, lives over 500 miles away. I can only speak to her through the internet, and soon, I'm not going to even have that, as I have to move out and go back home for Christmas break, and I have no wifi at my house.

This brings me back to my original point. Not having these people I hold dear to my heart close to me, not being able to be with them, not being able to see them... it makes me feel completely and utterly alone in this world. I'm surrounded by people, and yet I feel isolated. Not to mention my social anxiety makes it almost impossible to make friends. The closes I get to being near these people are the recent phone calls from my best friend (which may or may not be frequent, depending on how her relationship with her mom goes), and seeing my girlfriend on weekends, and seeing one of my other friends hardly ever.

Now, I didn't write this for sympathy; I wrote this blog post because maybe, just maybe, someone on this website is feeling the same way, and I want them to know that they aren't alone. I want them to know that there are other people who feel the same way, and maybe take solace in the fact that they aren't alone.

If any of you need someone to talk to, if you need a friend or a shoulder to cry on when you feel that there isn't anyone else you can turn to, you can come to me. I'll listen.

Until next time, everypony.

-Brendan