Taken from reddit while I was searching for threads from people who knew someone who died all alone
I knew a guy who passed away at 58 from a heart attack. He lived down the hall in my apartment. Nice guy, worked as a librarian, went to church on Sundays. No kids, no siblings, parents dead.
Was not an attractive dude at all, and the sad part is he really tried to put himself out there with networking, going to social events, etc. He ran a lot of these job networking coffee meetups in my city he’d setup online, and also had tons of hobbies like tennis and going to board game meet ups too. He certainly had an active social life.
He was an overall decent man and you could tell he wanted to settle down and have a girlfriend, wife, kids… and it just never happened. He told me every single time he asked a girl out he was rejected, and his online (this is pre apps, think lavalife or plenty of fish) success rate was non-existent. Never got a single date/DM through those sites and time was just whizzing by for him.
I remember a few years ago, which put him in his early-mid 50s, I ran into him in my apartment hallway…. he was crushing really hard on an older single woman he met, and was nervous but shot his shot… and she shut him down. I think that was his breaking point because he broke down, cried in front of me and said “I’m going to die alone”. I felt for the guy… Sadly, he did.
I knew a guy who passed away at 58 from a heart attack. He lived down the hall in my apartment. Nice guy, worked as a librarian, went to church on Sundays. No kids, no siblings, parents dead.
Was not an attractive dude at all, and the sad part is he really tried to put himself out there with networking, going to social events, etc. He ran a lot of these job networking coffee meetups in my city he’d setup online, and also had tons of hobbies like tennis and going to board game meet ups too. He certainly had an active social life.
He was an overall decent man and you could tell he wanted to settle down and have a girlfriend, wife, kids… and it just never happened. He told me every single time he asked a girl out he was rejected, and his online (this is pre apps, think lavalife or plenty of fish) success rate was non-existent. Never got a single date/DM through those sites and time was just whizzing by for him.
I remember a few years ago, which put him in his early-mid 50s, I ran into him in my apartment hallway…. he was crushing really hard on an older single woman he met, and was nervous but shot his shot… and she shut him down. I think that was his breaking point because he broke down, cried in front of me and said “I’m going to die alone”. I felt for the guy… Sadly, he did.
