Why do the vast majority of people feel like outsiders?
In my mom's many years as a psychologist, she said that the number one thing she heard from anybody was that they felt different, they felt like they could never be the same, they felt like something was "strange" about them that stopped them from fitting in as well as they would like.
Why do you think this happens? Is it a lack of self-esteem? Is it simply that society and popular media desensitizes us to stereotypes so much that we become prejudiced, leading us to think that everybody's the way they appear on T.V. (and thus different from us)? Could it simply be that we're wired this way for our own good (so we don't settle down too long, when we were Nomadic)? And if that's it, how did we develop a feeling so complex to counter the urge to settle down? They could have just taken away our ass so we couldn't sit down.
So why do we feel different? Do you notice the same thing in yourself? Anything else you'd like to add?
P.S.: Don't tell me it's because my mom's patients were crazy ("They were seeing a shrink after all, durr"). Some of them were more healthy up there than anybody I've ever met.
In my mom's many years as a psychologist, she said that the number one thing she heard from anybody was that they felt different, they felt like they could never be the same, they felt like something was "strange" about them that stopped them from fitting in as well as they would like.
Why do you think this happens? Is it a lack of self-esteem? Is it simply that society and popular media desensitizes us to stereotypes so much that we become prejudiced, leading us to think that everybody's the way they appear on T.V. (and thus different from us)? Could it simply be that we're wired this way for our own good (so we don't settle down too long, when we were Nomadic)? And if that's it, how did we develop a feeling so complex to counter the urge to settle down? They could have just taken away our ass so we couldn't sit down.
So why do we feel different? Do you notice the same thing in yourself? Anything else you'd like to add?
P.S.: Don't tell me it's because my mom's patients were crazy ("They were seeing a shrink after all, durr"). Some of them were more healthy up there than anybody I've ever met.