I have to say K's advice sounds damn harsh, but it is the straight dope.

My opinion-

- Yes your position is tough

My solution-

Talk more to people, all people, talk to strangers.

Be the instigator of conversations in public

"Busy innit?"
"nice day for it"

We encounter thousands of opportunities to interact with other people we don't know every day. Some people like doing this so they do it, some don't so don't, some never realise..



Rise like Lions after Slumber,
In unvanquishable number
Shake your chains to Earth
like Dew
that in Darkness had come upon you
You are many
They
are few