You Need Friends. For If You Do Not Have Friends, You Are Alone.

"You Need Friends.
You Need Friends To Have Someone To Talk To.
You Need Friends To Provide You With Perspective.
You Need Friends To Introduce You To New Experiences,
You Wouldn't Have Had On Your Own.
You Need Friends To Support You When You Feel Like You're Falling.
You Need Friends For You To Have People To Care About,
To Have People You Want To Love, Help, And Care About.
You Need Friends,
For If You Do Not Have Friends, You Are Alone.
And People Weren't Meant To Be Alone."

Human Beings Are Not Meant To Be Alone.
Human Beings Are A Social Creature By Design.
When We Are Alone, We Are Acting Against Our Nature.
Such Living Cannot Be But Painful.

...this piece of advice is especially pertinent to me...
i have been a loner in my heart my whole life.
maybe it's time to start reaching out on my part...

Here's a nice poem on friendship I found on the net :

People need people and friends need friends,
And we all need love for a full life depends-
Not on vast riches or great acclaim,
Not on success or on worldly fame,
But just in knowing that someone cares,
And holds us close in their thoughts and prayers-
For only the knowledge that we’re understood,
Makes everyday living feel wonderfully good,
And we rob ourselves of life’s greatest need,
When we “lock up our hearts” and fail to heed,
The outstretched hand reaching to find,
A kindred spirit whose heart and mind,
Are lonely and longing to somehow share,
Our joys and sorrows and to make us aware,
That life’s completeness and richness depends,
On the things we share with our loved ones,
and friends.

- Helen Steiner Rice