How can I get friends and have a normal life.

Ive always found getting friends 100% impossible I just feel awkward around people and most people around me say that they have never heard me speak. I am very quiet but can talk to people one on one. I was classed as good all through school because i was quiet, but being quiet is useless in adulthood. I never meet anyone and its annoying I dont even have a social circle of friends to go out with I never have had. Im very quiet and keep myself to myself but I want to get to know people its just I dont get the opportunities. Im looking for a job at the moment and am sick of getting rejected by interviews because I dont have the gift of the gab. My only interests involve keeping fit, Im in a sports club which ive been going to for over 15 years (im 28 now) I see the same people there and at other places so I dont meet anyone new. Part of me likes being single but the other part of me is really worried about never settling down or having children. I see people around me and they make it seem like family/marriage/children is all that matters. I like to have a long term plan/ambitions and Im working on this now. Ive just finished a nursing degree but dont want to be a nurse (never did, I was encouraged by others) so am looking at changing this into something lese with the o pen uni. The main thing that plays on my mind is that ive never had a boyfriend or sex etc. I dont particularly want the sex just the marriage but I suppose you have to give and take. This always being single wouldnt really bother me if it was common to always be single but its not...basically I feel like a freak. I keep telling myself I'l become more extrovert (if this is possible lol) and get out there but I never do because I dont know where to go exactly to meet people. Im not too keen on pubs plus the men there go after the other girls. I guess I just want to meet people who are likeminded but there is no one likeminded lol, most people are getting married and have kids. Any advice? Ive been stuck in this rut ever since I grew up! Or maybe Ive not even grown up who knows.

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