"Conventional Remedy" for Loneliness
Ever since I found this forum yesterday, I have been thinking about especially the very young people (presumably men rather than women, but I don't want to exclude anyone from my thoughts; it's just that the advice I'm about to give is specifically designed for men because I have no knowledge of the equivalent for women) who may be looking for help on here.
Personally I'm already pretty far along, and the remedy I am about to present did not resolve my loneliness because I was looking for a different form of companionship, but it may well help someone else, especially if you are now at a place where you are simply looking for ANY form of companionship, particularly from women.
In this world, especially in our so-called Western civilization, more than 90% of people base their decision whether or not to keep you company, entirely or almost entirely on your appearance, mainly your clothes.
I know it may cause you to feel disingenuous, as it did me, but it "works" nonetheless: Usually (for a casual look) you can just wear any old pair of jeans, but get yourself a nice (darker) blue, long sleeved 100% cotton dress shirt that fits you. In case you can't find your size, get one that fits around your neck and ignore sleeve length. Make sure it's clean and pressed. Wear it with your jeans, roll up the sleeves approximately to your elbows in a way that will minimize wrinkles. The wrinkles themselves are irrelevant, but you want to look casual, not like a geek who can't even roll up his sleeves without cutting off circulation in his arms. (This is more difficult than it sounds, so don't be afraid to spend half an hour on getting it right.) Make sure to leave the top button (around your neck) open, but for most people, the others should be buttoned. Once you are happy with it, forget about it and go out. I repeat: forget about it. Don't try to adjust your clothes or hair or anything once you have left the house, don't even think about any of this anymore. It will do its magic even if it doesn't remain perfect throughout the day, especially in that case, as a matter of fact.
Your haircut will have to be somewhat "acceptable," i.e. dreadlocks, shaved portions of your scalp etc. might not work too well, but it doesn't have to be perfect. I had cut my hair myself, even without good mirrors, and I still experienced tremendous success with the shirt. You should shave your face, all of it, but up to about 4 days of growth (a week if your beard grows slowly, but evenly) is considered perfectly acceptable for the casual look you are shooting for.
That's it. It's pretty much the shirt. I guess if your car sucks you'll also want to spend little time in or around it.
Now let me give you my testimonial. I had been approaching and talking to women more or less full time for about 3 weeks. I would talk to anywhere between 10 and 50 women every day on the beach, at the grocery store, in the parking lot. (I never liked to go "clubbing" or any of that.) Needless to say (on here), no woman had EVER approached me and started a conversation, but that was alright. I would talk to them. Every single one of them rejected me.
So then I talked about this with one of my acquaintances who suggested a bet. She went out and bought me a shirt like I described above, rolled up the sleeves for me and told me to wear jeans with it. She said not only would I have much more success with women, but I would also attract a whole different quality of women. So I tried it for a day. I didn't even believe in it; obviously I accepted the bet and said people wouldn't be THAT superficial ... to change their entire behavior based on the exact nature of a stupid piece of cloth wrapped around my torso ... that just didn't seem very likely.
Boy was I wrong. I kid you not, on that one day, a total of 5 women approached me and started talking to me before I had ever even noticed them, much less made eye contact. Another one (this one I approached) ended up giving me her phone number without my asking for it. I got invited to a party, hugged; all sorts of weird things happened on that day.
If you are like me, you might not be into this kind of conditional, highly superficial affection any more than an actual hooker. But maybe this helps someone out there who is looking for just that, even if it may only be a stepping stone or a phase in his life.