(((jacq10))) to answer your question: absolutely. Your future is waiting for you and I can bet it will be better than you think. And in the meantime, a cat can be a friend too. From my experience, sometimes animals can understand things better than humans.

Phoenix has some very good ideas about how to meet people, think about it. I did some volunteer work when I was in uni and I met a lot of nice ppl there. I had absolutely no friends in university but a lot of good acquaintances and some friends at the place I worked.