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Enlightened
- Apr 8, 2020
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I am 27 and growing up I didn't know where I really belonged this is why I feel life isn't for me. My parents are Immigrants ( African culture) and I was born here in the UK. Growing up with family from different culture whatever problems I had as teenager growing up in the UK my family couldn't relete nor knew how to deal with it . For example my family couldn't understand why it was a massive deal for me to fit in at school because in African culture school education is highly valued in families and going to school to learn is regarded as a privilege since many kids cant afford it.
Whenever I visited my parents home country I always feel like an outsider because I have nothing in common with my relatives as a result of growing up in the UK and living western culture. The popular home dishes my relatives love I don't like the same goes with the music, the gossip culture and deeply social Conservative country my parents country is. I am very respectful open minded about other people's beliefs but at heart I am free spirited liberal and feminist. My relatives always just see me as some kid who lives in the UK with no real interest in wanting to know me it shows in their behaviour. My relatives gossiping and laughing about my mental problems when I was a teenager also made showed me at a young age that everyone sees me as the freak of the family.
At school I struggled to fit in, was regularly builled and didn't have a strong friendship group the other kids at school had. The main friends I did have a school said mean things about me when I was not around and I had to find out from the someone else. These friends at times excluded me from the group and even allowed a new girl to push me out of the group. Throughout year 7 to sixth-form I went through many periods of hanging different people to having no friends at all. A lot of the time I was lonely at school and never really had friends.
I experienced being abandoned by friends once they had bfs or their love life becoming their new life because it was like everyone else was growing up except me and my friends saw me as someone they didn't need anymore. I experienced this both in secondary school and university.When I was at my last university I befriended with a woman in my law class. During first year we were really close and we talked regularly then second year came all she kept talking about was this man she has been messaging and had a crush on. At times I felt left out of the group because my friend and another classmate would talk about the men in their lives while I was more interested in my law degree course.
The same friend when it came to final year ended up lashing out at me when I experienced some concerns about the relationship she had with the man she liked. I had some suspicions the man was married. I was a different person at 21 and used to think age gap relationships were creepy.
The man was in 40s and had a professional job as a cardiologist while my friend was just an unemployed university student in her 20s. I questioned why a man in such a professional job is not with a woman his own age and with a succesful career. It was even more creepy because the man was a family friend my friend knew all her life.
She got so mad at me for asking "are you sure he is not married?" I later learnt the man she liked was a family friend in his 40s which she knew all her life. She said to me " I have known him all my life, my family would never lie to me "
She got so fucking defensive it was so disturbing she acted as if I murdered someone. She looked down upon me for being single and mocked me for it.
A lot of social exclusion I have experienced throughout my life along with being rejected by men and things never working out constantly made me feel life just isn't for me and I don't belong here in this world. Why was I born so different and unable to fit in anywhere.
Whenever I visited my parents home country I always feel like an outsider because I have nothing in common with my relatives as a result of growing up in the UK and living western culture. The popular home dishes my relatives love I don't like the same goes with the music, the gossip culture and deeply social Conservative country my parents country is. I am very respectful open minded about other people's beliefs but at heart I am free spirited liberal and feminist. My relatives always just see me as some kid who lives in the UK with no real interest in wanting to know me it shows in their behaviour. My relatives gossiping and laughing about my mental problems when I was a teenager also made showed me at a young age that everyone sees me as the freak of the family.
At school I struggled to fit in, was regularly builled and didn't have a strong friendship group the other kids at school had. The main friends I did have a school said mean things about me when I was not around and I had to find out from the someone else. These friends at times excluded me from the group and even allowed a new girl to push me out of the group. Throughout year 7 to sixth-form I went through many periods of hanging different people to having no friends at all. A lot of the time I was lonely at school and never really had friends.
I experienced being abandoned by friends once they had bfs or their love life becoming their new life because it was like everyone else was growing up except me and my friends saw me as someone they didn't need anymore. I experienced this both in secondary school and university.When I was at my last university I befriended with a woman in my law class. During first year we were really close and we talked regularly then second year came all she kept talking about was this man she has been messaging and had a crush on. At times I felt left out of the group because my friend and another classmate would talk about the men in their lives while I was more interested in my law degree course.
The same friend when it came to final year ended up lashing out at me when I experienced some concerns about the relationship she had with the man she liked. I had some suspicions the man was married. I was a different person at 21 and used to think age gap relationships were creepy.
The man was in 40s and had a professional job as a cardiologist while my friend was just an unemployed university student in her 20s. I questioned why a man in such a professional job is not with a woman his own age and with a succesful career. It was even more creepy because the man was a family friend my friend knew all her life.
She got so mad at me for asking "are you sure he is not married?" I later learnt the man she liked was a family friend in his 40s which she knew all her life. She said to me " I have known him all my life, my family would never lie to me "
She got so fucking defensive it was so disturbing she acted as if I murdered someone. She looked down upon me for being single and mocked me for it.
A lot of social exclusion I have experienced throughout my life along with being rejected by men and things never working out constantly made me feel life just isn't for me and I don't belong here in this world. Why was I born so different and unable to fit in anywhere.
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