An Essay on Belonging

An Essay on Belonging Belonging is a natural reaction, intrinsic. We search in order to find a community, a group of friends, a country in which we belong. America is a place whereWhen we feel uncomfortable, we say “I don’t belong here” and when you find a situation in which you are happy, you can be yourself, natural and free you feel as if it was created only for you. It can also be …

…live with the constant attention of being gawked and stared at, around each corner, in each subway car, in every restaurant, everywhere. I didn’t belong, but I could never belong and it was a liberating experience, one which taught me in a way the rules for living on the fringe of a society. Rules, or lack of, which shaped me more as an individual than any thing else I had experienced in my life.”