I don't have any friends and I don't know how to find someone I have something in common with.

I know this topic has been discussed so many times before but I don't know who else to turn to. I don't have any friends. I just don't know where to find people I have something in common with. I'm a 32 years old woman. I work as a nurse. The city I live in has a population of about 400,000 people. I would love to find people who like going outdoors and hiking. But it's very difficult. I would join a gym to find people to talk to, but I hate going to the gym. I don't do anything creative so that's out of the question. But I still would like to be around people who know how it is to be lonely. I don't know, maybe I even like being alone, I like spending time with myself, but I also feel like I'm missing out and something is missing. A big part of me feels like I was meant to live in isolation as I've never been very sociable.<br><br>I recently moved to a new house. I know that there's a woman who's also my age living in the house next to mine, but I don't have the courage to even try to get to know her. Maybe we have something in common, maybe we could be friends. But I don't know, how to approach her? Should I even try? I've lived alone for so long, I don't know what to even talk about with anyone.<br><br>I have a cousin who's about my age. We're related, but we don't really have anything in common. So we only see each other at family parties. <br><br>I'm so tired of feeling lonely all the time. It feels like I'm the only person to ever feel this way. It's awful to be surrounded by so many people and at the same time feel like I'm completely alone. It's so hard to find people to talk to. I don't know what to do. I know that I'm not a very interesting person, so that probably makes it harder to find someone who would be willing to talk to me. I don't think I'm a boring person, but I can be a bit shy sometimes and I know that at first I might come off as boring. But once you get to know me, I'm not, but that's the problem, I don't know how to get people to want to get to know me.