u/OkPlenty3514

So it's my 17th birthday today and well none of my family are celebrating it so I'm alone today:P (typical typical) so anyway I love nature and the outdoors, I have a trail ebike but at the moment I'm learning to control the speed and proper brake control on roads, I'm hoping to soon go on actual trails. A couple other things are gaming (occasionally), I'm picking reading back up. Idrc about age or gender, just wanting to talk to someone so I'm not entirely alone today.

As the title says, I was in a crash, not a car crash but just a bike crash. It wasn't horrible, but it was painful. My arm got a bit messed up. I got what looks like a puncture wound on my hand and a scrape on my knee. Anyway, to my issue: seeing the blood trickle down my arm and feeling the pain across my body brought up old memories from when I used to cut (a little backstory: I used to cut every day for comfort, punishment, just to feel something, etc.). But that was a year and 5 months ago. I've been clean for that year and 5 months, but this incident just seeing and feeling it all really is making me want to do it again, even once. Today already has been a difficult day. I hadn't heard from someone I care deeply about since yesterday morning, so I was very worried and distracted, and then earlier today I had to go out and buy a tube as I had a flat. So all around, today has been difficult. I just really want to do it, but I don't want to disappoint the person I mentioned. What do I do? Idk how to make these thoughts go away today.

For a little backstory, I've never been the most popular, but I've always had a modest amount of close friends up until I was 10. From then up to now, things happened, which is for another post another time. But once I turned 10, my closest friend, whom I'd known for as long as I can remember, started to drift away. Nothing happened, no fight, no hurting each other; we just slowly lost contact. Another friend whom I'd known for years, who I still try to contact to this day, has drifted or is drifting away. Then there's my last friend out of the three I know in person. I've known him for about 2, maybe 3 years now. We still talk daily, but we both moved. He lives over an hour away, and his living situation makes it so I can't go over there, and my living situation makes it so he can't come over here. I've always been a really shy kid. I'm more shy than I've ever been in person at the moment. I'm almost 17. I have no local friends or any friends besides the one. Anyway, let me get to my point.

How do you make local friends anymore? The town I live in is smallish; there aren't really any centers or anything like that where I could meet people my age. There are 4 parks which I tend to bike to frequently, and they tend to always be busy, but due to how shy I am, I can never bring myself to approach anyone at all, and I don't know what to do anymore. It's getting to the point where I feel so isolated and alone that I'm getting desperate for any sort of connection. So that brings me back to my question. How do you make local friends as a shy 17 year old? (I say 17, not 16, because my birthday is in 15 days, so :P)

Heya, I'm looking for a teammate or two, maybe three. I only have about 60 hours on PC Rust, so I'm not the best by any means. I have 4k hours on console, ranging back to 2022. I never really was a PvPer; I was more of an electrician and builder. But I'm now looking to add PvPer to that list, but I don't particularly like playing strictly solo, hence the need/want for a team. I talk when I need to; otherwise, I'm relatively quiet. I'm looking specifically for anyone 14-18, any gender; it doesn't matter to me. All I ask besides that is to be chill so we can chill and play, and try to have fun. I prefer mostly vanilla servers, but I'm willing to go up to a 2x server.

I'm looking for Rust teammates, but I'm down to play anything we both have. I'm specifically looking for chill people who aren't super competitive and just wanna have fun. I talk when I need to or to answer questions, but otherwise, I'm pretty quiet. I don't have many PC hours as I never had a team to play with so I'm not the best.

So I have about shoulder-length hair, which I really love. At the moment, all I do is brush it (obviously) and use shampoo and conditioner (obviously), so pretty much the bare minimum. But I recently got my diploma, so I have way too much time on my hands with nothing to fill it until I get a job. Anyway, I want to start doing more with my hair. I'm not sure how to explain it, but I want to do stuff with it and to it. But I don't particularly want to draw attention to myself because I'm pretty sure I'd be disowned if any of my family found out. Any advice\opinions would be lovely, thanks. :33