"In any culture, or tribe, or collective context, I think there are probably a fairly large percentage of members, participants, individuals, who feel “not quite a perfect fit.” I imagine that most of us at one time or another knows something of this feeling, even if we might be able simply to tuck it quickly behind some distraction and carry-on… “Everything’s fine. :-)”. The pandemic isolation created a feeling of "so near" and "so far".....to go to the grocery store become "so far"....sitting in the alone/all-one became so much more present than previously feeling that regardless of fitting or not fitting, I for one just kept fitting into the existing systems, engaging with them even though not in agreement with them,,,,"everything's fine".
As if you were reading my mind.....
In what sense? :-)
"In any culture, or tribe, or collective context, I think there are probably a fairly large percentage of members, participants, individuals, who feel “not quite a perfect fit.” I imagine that most of us at one time or another knows something of this feeling, even if we might be able simply to tuck it quickly behind some distraction and carry-on… “Everything’s fine. :-)”. The pandemic isolation created a feeling of "so near" and "so far".....to go to the grocery store become "so far"....sitting in the alone/all-one became so much more present than previously feeling that regardless of fitting or not fitting, I for one just kept fitting into the existing systems, engaging with them even though not in agreement with them,,,,"everything's fine".
Good beginning for you Substack postings.