Hey Seddit, I need some advice on actually getting a life.

I'm 24 and though I've been depressed for a long time, I'm finally working on it. I've taken up meditation, weightlifting and running (though I've been injured a few times so progress is dead slow), I've stopped doing drugs, and some of the time I spent playing video games is now being reinvested into my guitar practice, which I (used to) love. I just got out of University and started a new job and if it works out, I hope to move out of my parent's house in a few months time.

And yet this weekend my phone hasn't received so much as a single text. It's usually like this but on this three-day weekend it's really bumming me out, and I'm starting to feel seriously demoralized. It's because I don't have a social circle to speak of. The only people I see regularly are my weightlifting friends, and I want to hang out with them outside of the gym, go out with them on a Friday night to talk to girls or something (so do they), but they are religious so bars are out of the question. I don't know any women and I have virtually zero experience dating. In other words, I don't have a life and I can't say I've ever had one.

In the last few months I've been trying to get out of the house and try new things. I went to some Yoga classes and I plan on joining a public speaking class that meets weekly, and I want to try hip-hop dancing at some point. However, I'm not doing any of those things out of enjoyment. In fact, out of all the activities/meetups I could be getting involved in - hiking, martial arts, tabletop games, book clubs, whatever - I don't find any of them interesting at all. I would only be doing them to meet people, which I'm bad at doing anyway; I have trouble keeping up a basic conversation. If I lived my life like I truly wanted to, I'd be at home playing guitar, going to the gym, skiing twice a year, going to EDM concerts all the time and taking a scuba diving class, which I doubt will come in very useful where I live, a landlocked mountainous region that experiences 3 weeks of summer out of the year. What's for sure though, none of those activities are particular social, all of them are expensive, and none of them will get me out of my comfort zone.

Truth is, I got involved in PUA-related stuff a few years ago. Even took a boot camp with a local company. For two long years I went out every weekend and approached and got nothing. I was way too invested in the outcome and if I'm honest with myself, I was deeply resentful of my peers who were seeing success. I haven't changed much from those days, and so I'd like to know how the hell I get out of that mindset, meet people, get this life shit moving and finally get laid? As it stands, I've started doing day time direct approaches just to get out of my comfort zone, but that's it.

Sorry for the venting, it's just that I'm desperate and having trouble seeing light at the end of this tunnel... and not masturbating for a month and counting is killing me slowly.