<human>: Can you provide a brief overview of the text?

I am a male 22 years old attending college in Colorado.

Two years ago my girlfriend broke up with me and I have kinda been stuck since.  The relationship with my ex was great, it just kinda hit a roadblock for her personally and that was that.  We dated for about a year and it was amazing, and then it just ended, nothing really more to it than that.

The last two years have really sucked as I float between trying to be friends with my ex (really important to me) and trying to find someone new to be with.  I have been on a few dates (4 total dates with 3 different girls) but nothing has really worked at all.  I'd really like to meet someone but I'm not sure about how, it's been my experience that the best things always seem to happen randomly by chance and I can't force that so...what do I do?

I hate meeting people at bars (effing sleazy) and I feel weird walking up to complete strangers (though I have done it before).

On a related note, I think one of my issues may be that I have hit a bit of an impasse in my own mind.  I don't think a relationship would work out for me.  It's not a confidence issue or anything like that, I just don't have much faith that everything will fall into place and work as well as things worked with my last girlfriend.

So...Any Advice?
<bot>: I want to meet new people (read: girls), but I don't know how to go about it? Additionally, I'm not sure things will work out.