The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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So, uh, what do you want?
You put it as a problem in need of a solution, yet by your own description you seem more or less happy (for some value of "happy") with your life.
By the fact that you are asking, I guess you aren't entirely happy. Is it just because you look around and see other people doing things you aren't and wonder what's wrong with you? Or do you vaguely sense something missing in your life?
Tbh with your religious beliefs and temperament I'd half-seriously suggest checking out convents.
Assuming that's off the table, well... You sound like you may be depressed. I think you have some conception of depression as being miserable and hating life all the time, but it can be just a gray blah that prevents you from enjoying life.
A lack of friends is very sad. Friendships don't have to be all transactional.
A lack of hobbies is also very sad. I mean, what the fuck does one do with one's life, aside from working, if you don't have a family? It's never too late to take an interest in... something.
You sound like what you lack is a purpose. If you have no purpose in life other than to get up every morning and do it all again, that would be pretty depressing to me.
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