Quote: (06-12-2014 10:27 PM)nek Wrote:
I'm without roots. Since I've been 18, I've bounced around the world. Went to college far from home where I knew no one. Took first job far from where I went to college and my hometown. Second job far from all three. Even my hometown, no one I'm friends with lives there anymore. My parents are about to move and I'm starting to realize that once that happens there's really no personal connections to where I grew up anymore. The place where I grew up, I have really no reason to visit anymore. The people have changed, hell even the architecture has changed. It seems like everyone else has roots but me. I'm trying to be my own man, and I understand a certain degree of isolation comes with that (it's lonely at the top, and that's where I'm trying to go). I don't really have a place I call home. If there's anyone else like this, please share your experience. I don't really have an end game with this thread beyond hearing other people's experience with this.
PS from what I hear from non-north americans, it's uncommon in other parts of the world to detach yourself so significantly from your hometown (this is coming from other anglosphere citizens as well...Aussies, South Africans, brits, etc.)
Had a good friend called Paul Cunniffe. He wrote an album of music around what you are experiencing. It's called 'Excuse my accent' iirc.
Paul was uprooted several times. Ireland, England. He never fitted in.
Same thing with me.
You aren't alone. There are a lot of us about.
It has its disadvantages. And it has its advantages.
Every man must steer his own ship, be Captain of it, Bosun and lacky too.
See ship's hierarchy:
http://www.brethrenofthegreatlakes.com/f...topic=72.0
That's me at the bottom - musician == scum. But times change. Life is what you make it.
Find a place where there are others like you with similar experiences and outlook. Re-group, get it together. Take over the world while everyone else is sleeping snug in their comfortable beds.
I exaggerate. For effect. I must stop doing that.
Anyway, hopefully you got the point.