To live life alone or try and meet that special someone?

Fear of rejection has dominated my life. Is it really worth living life alone? Should I just go up to people and start random conversations?To live life alone or try and meet that special someone?
Fear of rejection is a hard one for me also. Right now, I'm thinking that no guy is going to like me; or not the type of guy that I want to attract. It can get so frusterating at times.



I'm 23-years-old, and have never had a boyfriend----I know how to talk to them, BUT not one guy that I know would actually ask me out on a date; and I have no idea why. One time, a guy came up to me at a dog park, we just starting talking, and he ended up asking for my # which I gave---but, it turned out that all he wanted was something sexual which I wasn't about to give to him. The only way I have been able to get dates have been on online dating sites---when I met these guys offline, they seemed nice, but it never got past the 3rd date mark for various of reasons. The last "date" I have had was back in August 2008. After that one, I kind of gave up on dating because I don't really see any hope of me getting married for several more years. Yesterday my family just told me that it's their goal for me to get married off this year which I don't think that's about to happen; so I kind of just laughed at them.



Anyways, all this to say; a couple of years ago, my brother and sister-in-law told me to just enjoy being single for the time being because apparently God wants me single right now for a reason. Also, because once I get married, I won't ever being single again until he dies----and there are married couples out there that wish sometimes that they are still single.