Sometimes this isn’t about you, it’s a place you don’t belong or a family you don’t belong. If you need to be somewhere, you need to be somewhere. You can’t be a home and live somewhere else, but you can be a home or a place to live.
This is the point I’m trying to make here, in the context of my previous blog post. We are all born into a particular place or family. And that place or family is one that we are destined to live in forever. So we have to start somewhere, because even though we are all born into the same place, we are all still going to die one day. So we have to start somewhere.
And a point I should mention is that we are all born into a particular place or family, and that place or family is our home. I mean, we are born with a certain level of privilege that entitles us to certain things, but so is everyone else. So how do we get to the point where we’re actually allowed to take advantage of that privilege? (I’m not talking about being able to legally or socially abuse your privilege here.
We get to use our privilege because our parents were our parents, we are allowed to use the privilege because we are family, and so on and so forth. But most of us are not allowed to use the privilege because we are not the ones we were supposed to be. So the problem is that as soon as we become aware that we are different from our parents we can begin to feel like we don’t belong. And this can manifest in many ways.
In our case, that feeling of not being the one we were supposed to be might be our first real manifestation of self-hatred. And in a way this is what our parents experienced growing up during the Vietnam War. We were all told by the government that we weren’t allowed to grow up, that we were supposed to be like everyone else. You know, like everyone else.
It is possible that we all grew up with such an attitude, but it can also be the very thing that we feel our parents didn’t have. If we feel that our identity is limited by our parents, it can be a very painful experience.
So if you find yourself feeling like you don’t belong somewhere, you might want to take a look at the following signs you might be struggling with identity.
The first sign is your own feelings of loneliness. You might feel isolated in a crowd. Or you might feel like you dont belong in the social environment you have built for yourself. There’s also a very real possibility that you might be feeling like you dont belong at work. You might feel like youre on your own, you might feel like youre being looked down on, you might even be feeling like youre in the wrong body.
I feel like I don’t belong anywhere. All my friends are in school and I don’t know anyone outside of school. I have no idea what I’m doing. I keep asking my friends for advice, but they all have the same answer. To be honest, I don’t know what I want to do with my life.
The truth is that you may seem like a stranger at work. But if you say that this is true, your life is going to change. You are going to feel like a stranger at work, and you might feel like you dont belong in a place where you feel like you belong. In other words, you are going to have a very real possibility of becoming a different person.
