belonging

[macele]

belonging.

do you have belonging in your life?

there's a general sense of, ... and much deeper thought, ... different types of belonging. can you add to the definition of belonging (unique maybe)?

examples of belonging. or do you feel something is missing?

whatever you all might like to share. doesn't have to be positve.

there are places, people, things that i feel this with, ... but i have a hard time with belonging, most often.

it feels so big. overwhelming sometimes. so much can be said, felt. for me, creative energy has a presence within belonging. i love the energy the word gives.

[justanolecowboy]

belonging.

do you have belonging in your life?

there's a general sense of, ... and much deeper thought, ... different types of belonging. can you add to the definition of belonging (unique maybe)?

examples of belonging. or do you feel something is missing?

whatever you all might like to share. doesn't have to be positve.

there are places, people, things that i feel this with, ... but i have a hard time with belonging, most often.

it feels so big. overwhelming sometimes. so much can be said, felt. for me, creative energy has a presence within belonging. i love the energy the word gives.

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you” - Walt Whitman

[Gemme]

belonging.

do you have belonging in your life?

there's a general sense of, ... and much deeper thought, ... different types of belonging. can you add to the definition of belonging (unique maybe)?

examples of belonging. or do you feel something is missing?

whatever you all might like to share. doesn't have to be positve.

there are places, people, things that i feel this with, ... but i have a hard time with belonging, most often.

it feels so big. overwhelming sometimes. so much can be said, felt. for me, creative energy has a presence within belonging. i love the energy the word gives.

The thing with belonging, for me, is that the feeling doesn't last. I have moments in time of feeling like I belong to or with someone or to a greater purpose or that I am in the place that I am meant to be. But it doesn't last.

It's something that I need to recultivate within myself in one way or another.

When it's not there, there's a definite sense of loss and something missing.

[deb_U_taunt]

I didn't grow up with a sense of belonging. I felt like an outsider. I was the odd person out in my family and school, bullied.

Today is different. I am still the odd one out with my family, BUT I have a wonderful group of friends and chosen family. I fit at work even! I work with tech geeks, so we are all the odd kids out growing up.

[girl_dee]

i've felt like an alien my whole life. Still do!

[Jesse]

I think that what feels like belonging to one of us, or a group of us, may feel like something completely different to another. For some it is a joyous word because they have a great sense of belonging with and to family, while for others, like myself, it can be a very burdensome word because we/they do not have that connection...that bonding that helps to create a belonging.

[macele]

in the movie Field of Dreams, the players longed for a place to play even after death. they belonged on a field.

i can understand that. it's a place that i know without a doubt, i belong. for example, i can close my eyes and see grass from many different fields. there's a peace in that for me. the lights on. the smells. i like to go, just me, ... i feel a belonging. i feel in my being that i was born to revel in all of her sights and sounds. a gift.

i've seen dee's photos. so i know you were born belonging to a camera. you create via that belonging.

[girl_dee]

in the movie Field of Dreams, the players longed for a place to play even after death. they belonged on a field.

i can understand that. it's a place that i know without a doubt, i belong. for example, i can close my eyes and see grass from many different fields. there's a peace in that for me. the lights on. the smells. i like to go, just me, ... i feel a belonging. i feel in my being that i was born to revel in all of her sights and sounds. a gift.

i've seen dee's photos. so i know you were born belonging to a camera. you create via that belonging.

wow. thank you. That is one place i feel most comfortable, within a nature backdrop though

[KCBUTCH]

We are talking about this is my class- Where do we fit? How many cultures do we belong to?
Chosen BF family definitely a culture of belonging that I looked for all my life and am grateful to have found it...
I belong to myself first
I belong to the earth and to spirit
I belong to the present and the past. I belong to my path my creative choice
I belong to Love to LIFE
I belong to a 12 step program and that chosen family
I belong to my parents

I was lost most of my life trying to belong with people I thought were like me and never fit
Then I was still and found an amazing community and belonging with many people that I would have never dreamed were like me
We looked different, we were from different places, cities, cultures but I found WE FELT alike...and that was enough...
I found belonging from the inside rather than the outside and I found in the BF community

[KCBUTCH]

i've felt like an alien my whole life. Still do!

I dont really know you well but it seems you belong right here!
Besides aliens are awesome!!! HUGS

[Girl_On_Fire]

Belonging...hmmm...no. I never have felt like I truly "belonged" anywhere. I was always treated as an outsider, teenager, and young adult. It wasn't until I discovered what made me different that I could pretend to blend as it were. (I have Asperger's).

However, now that I know that I view the world differently from others, I am better able to explain myself and 'fit in'. Still, I don't let it define me. I'm always pushing against my limitations but I still know, no matter how good I am at 'faking it', on some energetic level I project my 'otherness'. People know. It's an instinctual thing. I can feel it when certain people look at me.

I still feel very much outside but I accept it now and even enjoy it. I realize now I never really needed to belong because I'm connected. We're all connected. :)

[Ginger]

I feel comfortable in most places, even if I don't know anyone there or it's a new, unfamiliar place.

But it's more rare to feel an affinity with people, in some deep way, and that's what I feel when I hang out with my old friends from the literacy community in NYC (which overlaps with the adult ed and immigrant rights communities); what I call my gentle, grey-haired communist friends. Their humanity is something I don't find in my work colleagues (god no), or even in the literary or poetry community, which thinks of itself as very liberal.

I would like to be part of a lesbian or butch-femme community but that just hasn't clicked for me in NYC though I do have a good femme friend. But I think of myself as belonging to the online community here.

[Bleu]

I dont really know you well but it seems you belong right here!
Besides aliens are awesome!!! HUGS

i've felt like an alien my whole life. Still do!

Aliens are awesome. I know. I'm from New Mexico.
:alieninjar:

[Rockinonahigh]

Belonging ..wow,this is something that I have been looking for a place to be,but that hasn't been possable for many years.I was the loner odd ball of my family....call it sins of the parrents to fall on an inocent kid well that was me untill I found a bond with horses.So I made that my lifes work till murphys law hit then it came to a crashing hault.The ajustment has made me realise how it is possable to live in a world doing the best you can even when there is no place that can fill the void that is left.Over the years I made a new career then picked up a new game called billiards wich I play on multiple teams to stay involved in and new people mostly straight.So life goes on and so do I as best as possable as we all do.Cheers yall.

[~ocean]

Belonging ~ owns ~ protects ~ guides ~ loves ~ shares ~ teaches ~ sexual control ~

Belonging ~ is what I am to (( Hym )) ~

My family , we love eachother enough to give then the choice of freedom ~ their ownselves do not belong to me ~

My friends walk this earth w/ their own self pride ~ that also dont belong to me ~

Myself I share my soul, wisdom, devotion , that dont even belong to me ~