I feel lonely. I don’t have any friends to hang out at Friday nights

This is what social media should be. People seeking out contact. People being honest about their selfves. It takes great courage to say this and you made an perfect example for us all. Cause we all are lonely sometimes and this makes people more connected then an influencer begging for our likes while he is busy pretending to be everything you want. But not who he really is. Authenticity and truth is what all seek and rarly find beneath the pile of gameshow hosts and circus monkeys. Entertainment is ok but expressing our true selves is better. Otherwise we all lose who we are as individuals and as human beings. Thanks very much! Very inspiring.

I have a recommendation. This is what my wife and I do every Friday night. Before bed, we have a bottle of wine and cheese and we watch an episode or two of a television show we have on DVD. Preferably a comedy. We talk and laugh. It's very enjoyable and relaxing. Years ago we started to drift apart. We were both in that routine you mentioned. Go to work, come home, don't go anywhere. We are each others best friend. For me, after working for 40 years I'm too tired mentally to have dozens of friends and going out. I'm fine with a lot less. You're not alone my friend.....I enjoy your videos.

Sometimes all a man needs is a good bag of chips and beer/soda to feel quite pleased. I agree with this whole-heartedly!

This is a good Christopher Hitchens quote - "A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends."

i feel like this and i'm only 26. love from germany.

You should make longer videos. Your voice is very soothing and your conversations are very relatable

This is pretty typical in America also. I'm only 34 and I barely see the friends I've known for 20 years. I never hang out with my co-workers. It can cause problems at work if arguments or drama happens outside of the work place. I'll be your friend dude, sending good vibes from the USA

This... is remarkable. You are disarmingly frank. You deserve a lot of support here on youtube, for the simple insights you have given to us around the world. Greetings from NZ.

Your not alone. I'm 63, working full-time, most of my coworkers are much younger than me-its a lonely feeling

This man is extra bougie. Drinking pepsi out of a Boston wine glass! Doritos and pepsi needs to sponsor him ❤😊

I stopped wanting any friends after I turned 50 (now 66). I really enjoy my own time to read, watch Youtube, playing with my hobbies, riding my motorcycle, and occasionally going out to meet friends when I want. I don't enjoy hanging out with friends more than once in a great while, though. And right now, I am not lonely, and feel my life is fulfilling enough.

Getting lonely is a normal emotion. I am 43 and live day to day traveling. I have no family anymore. All of my friends are either gone or far away. You have good days and bad days. Some people say they envy my life. But all they know is the traveling and nothing about me feeling lonely and sometimes lost in a world that I don't fit in with. I am more of an old fashion person and this new modern world confuses me. I just do the best that I can.

Many people feel like this, bro. All over the world. You're not the only one.

Thank you for your honesty. I’m 44 years old and have by now learned - and begun to accept and embrace - that life comes with an inbuilt sense of existential loneliness. It is not helped by the fact that the external world is so focused on materialism and success, that we quickly become strangers to ourselves and each other. I used to desperately try to drown that out with socialising, alcohol and dating, when I was single. It is true that companionship and socialising with friends can temporarily remove the focus from this loneliness, but in the end, it is always there. It takes a radical acceptance of this to just relax and be in your own company. In a certain way, the loneliness is because we are separate from a core part of ourselves. That’s why we can often be the most lonely in a crowd (we don’t connect with, or feel at home in). When we radically and fully except that we are alone, and that is a paradox, people will be drawn to your calmness. Of course, there is probably a cultural element to this. In my understanding, Japanese people people don’t want to bother or be a burden on others, and will always maintain a dignified distance out of respect. Maybe that creates a distance, that can be lonely? I know this from other western Europeans visiting Japan, that it can be difficult to socialise. And someways, this is probably the opposite of the Anglo-Saxon bar culture, where conversation, even with strangers, it’s very easy, or like in the south of Europe, were extended groups of people hang out together in cafés or restaurants. I have been to Seoul and South Korea, so I have a certain firsthand experience of the correctness and respectful distance. So when part at least, I think I understand. Anyway, life is not easy, and often it can seem random and arbitrary on the surface. I guess that is universal😊 In reality though, I think we are here to learn, and that loneliness is trying to tell us something about connection inwards with deeper parts of ourselves.

I feel ya brother. No friends, or family herre and about your age. It's hard to meet people at our age.

Watching you made me feel like I am listening to an older friend 🙂

This channel is such a strange mix of self-own and therapy. But keep on going, brother, you are on the path of awakening.

I'm 45, have a wife, an almost 2 year old daughter and a son due in about 3 months. I had my time. I partied like a rockstar for 18 years. It's my family's time. I don't need friends. It's all for them. It's legacy building time - until I see my Dad again.

At least you have family, many ppl are single😢

I often spend time watching your videos when I am feeling lonely. It's nice to hear your stories and expression of feelings. Thanks for helping make the world feel a little smaller.