I feel so alone

I'm 23 years old and have no friends, no girlfriend and nothing to look forward to. I'm stuck in a dead end job that barely pays enough to cover my bills and I'm constantly worried about money. I feel like I've got nothing to look forward to and I'm just going through the motions of life just waiting for it to be over. I'm tired of being alone.<br><br>Sometimes I'll be sitting there, maybe doing nothing and for no reason at all I'll get depressed. I'll get a horrible empty feeling in my stomach and feel horrible. I just want to feel like I'm comfortable in this world and I don't feel like I am. I feel like I'm constantly an outsider and that I'll never meet someone who understands me or will like me for who I am. I feel like I'm just going to be lonely forever and there's nothing I can do about it. I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that this is just how it's going to be. I'm always going to be lonely, I'm always going to hate my life and I'm always going to feel the way I do.<br><br>I've tried meeting new people but it never seems to work out. The few people in my life that I consider to be friends don't really seem like friends at all. We don't really talk much and it's not really a friendship. We met in high school and now we just kind of know each other and that's it. I've never gotten any attention from girls and I've always felt unattractive. I've been working out more and more but I just don't seem to get girls attracted to me. I've wondered if I maybe just don't like girls the right way but at the same time, I know that I am attracted to girls. I don't know. I wish I didn't have to worry about this stuff.<br><br>Sometimes I'll meet a girl and I'll think everything is going good. I'll think that maybe this is it and I'll finally have someone to talk to. But it always ends the same way. After a week or two of us getting to know each other they stop talking to me. I just can't figure it out. I feel like I've done everything right but I still always end up alone. <br><br>Recently I started talking to this girl and we hit it off really well. We had so much in common and we could talk for hours. For a while I thought everything was cool and I thought that I'd finally found someone who liked me. But she stopped talking to me. I don't know what happened. I just got up one day and she wasn't responding to my messages. I thought maybe she was busy but it's been months and I haven't heard from her. I feel really alone and it hurts to think about it.<br><br>I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. I feel like I've tried everything and there's nothing left I can do. I feel like I've just been dealt a bad deck of cards and I have to deal with it. I feel like I'm just going to be lonely forever and I don't think there's anything I can do about it.<br><br>Sorry. I don't know why I posted this. I just had to get it off my chest.