Thank you all for your replies! Even though I wouldn't wish these fears nor loneliness on anyone, it feels good to know I'm not alone with my feelings..

Good suggestions as well! I feel the best thing would probably be to just focus on getting on with my life and, as you said, Ruari, live it to the fullest. Alone or not, I still have to go on, so might as well try and make my life as good as possible - and I guess it's still possible to live with the sadness of being alone..

Maybe the way forward is to radically accept I might remain alone, but the way the world is, it's still likely I'll make some kind of friends somewhere, at work, school.. Even if none of them turn out to become really close friends. At least it'd be something. Maybe I just need to accept where I'm at and be grateful IF good things come to my life.

In the end, all we can do is be ourselves, dare to be available to others, and hope for the best, I guess.. I've always believed I'm so utterly unlovable no one can possibly love me, but you know what - it's not true!!! Not everyone is going to like me nor love me, but there are people who can. It'd be completely unrealistic to think no one could!