Hey bro, I feel you, man.

People recommend a girlfriend because that kind of closeness offers understanding.

My prescription for you is a good dosage of understanding, man.

See, understanding is to love as hatred is to ignorance.
To communicate is an effort to understand, so to communicate is an act of love, and you should do it a lot more often, with people you think can understand you.

The only problem is that society has made communication both easier and harder with technology, and your situation is not uncommon because of this. People lose sight of what really matters, and when most people do it, it gets hard for those of us who value the immaterial. Not a lot of people nowadays are completely able to communicate... Reliance on the internet, phones, texting devices, ect. I stay away from that stuff. Closeness offers an understanding that can't be substituted with technology alone. You gotta FEEL THE LOVE MAN.

I was obviously born 40-something years late, I think I belong back at Woodstock with all the communicators and understanders, not moping around with material shallow people who care about nothing more than their paycheck. Anyways dude, you can pull this off. Just remember, being alone isn't an issue, lack of communication/understanding is. It really matters... in fact, it should be the only thing that ever mattered to anyone, in my opinion.