I just want to finally be able to recover from the catastrophic damage that was done to my life from vicious bullying in college so long ago now. The fallout from that effectively froze my life for fourteen years now. It paralyzed my ability to make any kind of progress in any part of life, and made me helpless to save a close friend who's now dead.
I've become painfully aware that the hopes I hold now are effectively unattainable. These lofty, unrealistic hopes are:
Find a girlfriend who I can fall in love with and who'd feel the same for me. This seems impossible now since I can't relate to anyone in my age group, our life experiences are intractably disparate, plus none of my interests are appealing to them (our society seems to have a ruthless way of purging said interests out of people after college).
Make friends again and rebuild something close to the social life I had briefly at the high point of my life (impossible for most of the reasons in the preceding paragraph).
My efforts at trying either of these have been met with harsh, unyielding failure. I want to somehow believe that I have a future worth living for, but that feels laughable right now.