too unique, not unique enough

if your unique, its lonely when your someone who wants to connect with likeminded people and have it as a valuable aspect of your life.

if your not unique and dont care about uniqueness or dont really understand it, good.

if your not unique and care about uniqueness, its a little conflict, like you want to feel special and different but your just like everyone else and can connect easily with them.

if your unique, but just not unique enough, theres could be a handfew of people who are the best compatibility possible in the world and you manage to meet them, and it makes it feel more stronger and special, very good.

its just having the chance to meet them being the main thing.

there are maybe a few thousand or hundred of maybe just a handfull of the people that are compatible with you but youll never meet because of the odds. 

if your routines and motions of life dont converge with meeting and interacting other people, there could be a chance you never meet any likeminded people even if there is there that exist plenty of, there is only just be under a thousand, a few hundred, maybe even just only a dozen of people you get to interact with or even just see in example persons life. it depends/varies across people ofcourse.

so considering that you want someone your age, theres tens and millions of people, which is far more than plenty to fill in the demand of meeting someone thats likeminded to you that could be a close friend or potentionally a romantic partner, but its just the limitations of proximity that bounds us, the limited amount of people you get to interact with when at work or school or transport.

now bringing the internet into discussion, it allows ways to meet YOUR people much easier due to an access to a lot more people, but makes what makes meeting those people hard in different ways compared to real life. your exposed to possibly hundreds of thousands, millions of people, with algorithms maybe or methods you discover to twindle your process to quickly meeting the people like you that you want to meet and then do so. 

but then, ofcourse, friends you make that have a better proximity with allows for better experiences, which online friends dont give aslong as the connection is ONLY online due to distance or other circumstances. 

online social connections work differently due to it literally being on screens, on computers, on completely different ways of communicating and whatnot. 

you can enjoy communicating with a irl friend which makes that connection even better due to being able to enjoy both the online convenience and experience and the real life part. 

online ones, just dont fill in that gap properly. but ofcourse it varies across people.

living with your partner enables this close proximity which allows enhanced bonding between both.