Do you feel alienated?

[Narz]

From your culture/community/family/school/workplace?

Just curious.

 

[Synobun]

Yes, but mostly due to my own shortcomings.

 

[MilesGregarius]

When I was younger, I often did.

Now, I am comfortable enough in my own sense of self that I no longer do because I no longer give a hoot about not meeting anyone else's expectations.

 

[civver_764]

From my culture? No, I love my culture. From my community? I have to admit I don't really interact with my community that much. From my family? No, I love my family. From my school? I'm not in school. From my workplace? No, I fit in perfectly with my workplace.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

From your culture/community/family/school/workplace?

Just curious.

I'm not actually sure what my culture is. I've been part of a number of groups, each with its own set of rules, expectations, customs, and mores. I've fit in, in some ways, but never perfectly in any of them. There's always been something that doesn't mesh.

 

[Lohrenswald]

From your culture/community/family/school/workplace?

yes

dunno what to say beyond that lol

Valka makes a good point about culture, but whatever it is I'd say I'm alianeted from it

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Can't say I completely understand how you humans function and behave.

 

[Borachio]

I guess. I don't know.

I feel a bit apart from my immediate neighbours (which isn't a bad thing in itself, after all we'd only get on each others nerves after a bit, and end up having to move).

And also from my siblings. It's not that we don't get on (although my brother and sister never talk to each other at all). It's just that we don't have that much in common.

 

[Kozmos]

Kind of. I never really fit anywhere so I have always fit everywhere. But not for too long. I try do good by my folks and friends and maybe the community at large if some projects pan out right. I've given up on personal happiness more or less. I just hope to do a lot of useful stuff and die suddenly. If only because hedonism has become boring as everything else did for me.

 

[Zelig]

I'm the center of my universe.

 

[civvver]

eh I mean not really. Sometimes it feels like I don't have a vent for frustrations about my family and I go unappreciated. My wife has this complex where she always has so much to do and she thinks she does so much more than her fair share in the household because she takes a really long time to do stuff and she equates time spent doing things with amount you got done which is obviously not factual. I give up my personal sleep to do things like play civ and she says I don't do enough. So sometimes in that regard I feel like no on gets me, I can't talk to her about my frustrations with her and if I talk to guy friends it feels like I am just whining a bunch so I won't do it.

I have a lot of wants that go unexpressed, sometimes I feel like no one cares about my happiness. Most men lead lives of quiet desperation kind of thing. But she'd probably say the same thing about herself.

That's occasionally though not like the norm.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

I'm tempted to just agree with Vincour. I'm reasonably isolated from people, and it can get pretty stinging sometimes. But I don't think it's alienation so much as simple isolation. There's nothing about the community or peer group at large that alienates me. The only things I struggle with are my host of mental illnesses. I've met good people in my life who immediately look down upon me for having them, so I have stopped being open about them with people I know until I really, really know them. My education level is the same. People immediately start talking down to me sometimes if they find out I don't have a college degree, or they tell me I have to go back or whatever. But the cultural mores at large and stuff aren't really anything I feel lost or confused about. Well, maybe handshaking. Screw handshaking. Seriously.

 

[GenMarshall]

Personally, I do oftenly feel alienated.

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

Yes, but mostly due to my own shortcomings.

This but I think there is more to it. Weaknesses are one part of it but it seems many more things factor in incluiding heredity...

On the other hand I like the fight even though I am at times quite bewildered at the scale of human misunderstanding, stupidity and helplesness I find in and around me as well as by some more positive sides of reality...

 

[Traitorfish]

Psychologically, or from the means of production?

'Cos, yeah.

 

[Hygro]

Sometimes.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I'm conscious that I'm a bit of a misfit, but I don't feel it as alienation.

 

[Borachio]

All the best people are misfits, imo.

Actually, come to think of it, I don't know anyone who isn't one.

 

[Leonel]

I guess I feel I have no real connection to mainstream American culture. I grew up in an ESF school in Hong Kong while it was still a British colony so a lot of my experiences are primarily English.

 

[MilesGregarius]

All the best people are misfits, imo.

Actually, come to think of it, I don't know anyone who isn't one.

Alienation implies more than simply being a misfit, though. It implies some kind of resentment or dissatisfaction at being a misfit.

I'm still (and will probably forever be) a misfit, but I no longer feel resentful or dissatisfied at that fact.