Love is a very magical and rewarding feeling. It is an emotion that gives you all kinds of high. And while we all would 'want' it in our life at some or the other point, we should ask ourselves if we really 'need' it. Considering the fact that a lot of times, we're only feeling lonely and miss the longing of someone in our life, it is not love that we should want. And so, it is very important to understand that you should love when you're solely ready and not at all when you're lonesome.
To understand in the simplest way, you're the most vulnerable while you're in your lonely phase of life. But what you should focus on here, is to know that there's no particular time to fall in love. There's no right time or wrong time. Love happens when it has to happen. And so, considering your vulnerability as one of the signs to need love is an absolutely wrong one.
Even if you manage to get into a relationship when you're lonely, you'll end up compromising and adjusting more than what is asked out of you. But as soon as you'll get out of this phase, it'll only get more challenging to keep up with the adjustments in your relationship.
So sit back. Get yourself together. It's just a phase and it shall pass. Nobody is going to want a person who doesn't know how to handle himself/herself when the going gets tough. You'll be a better person when you're emotionally, mentally and physically doing well. And only then, is the time to actually fall in love.
