Do You Ever Get That Feeling You're Not Where You Belong? | The Odyssey Online
Start writing a post
Politics and Activism

Do You Ever Get That Feeling You're Not Where You Belong?

How I long to go back to the place I love to call home.

160
Do You Ever Get That Feeling You're Not Where You Belong?
pixabay

I want to go back to where I a from. Where I can be myself and not feel ashamed, or out of place. All the people I love so dearly are there missing me, while I am missing every one of them while I am trapped here. While I am here, I feel like an outsider and that I am out of place. I guess that is because I am unique, from a different world even. I am an outsider because I really am an outsider. There I truly fit in with everything and everyone.

I fit in because I come from there.

I look like them, talk like them, and I am like them inside and out. From Jerusalem to T’zfat is where I belong, not from Radford to Amherst. I do not belong here, I belong on the other side. I have tried so many things to fit in but nothing seems to stick. I have given up, I used up all the faith that I could trying to do something so foolish.

This is not my place, I realized that it is not meant to be.

I am proud of where I am from, and who I have become. I savor different foods, I look unusual to everyone else, I speak in a weird way than all the people around me. I lived here for 20 years and was never really able to say that I belonged here. I visited there for only ten days and felt more in place there then I have experienced nothing like this in my lifetime. I was able to embrace their culture, and just be myself and not feel uneasy about anything I did or said. How I long to go back to the place I love to call home.

Home to Israel, where I truly belong.

Report this Content
This article has not been reviewed by Odyssey HQ and solely reflects the ideas and opinions of the creator.
cousins
Bailey Totten

I've known you your entire life. More than likely I held you in the first three days of it and at least one of us cried. Cousins are truly one of the best things in the world and while sometimes I complain about how many people crowd Grandma's living room on Christmas Eve, I wouldn't trade you all anything.

You are my best friends, the only people who can understand what it's like on Thanksgiving, and you are the spunkiest people I have ever met. But you as so so young, most of you are just now starting your adventures in the public education system. I mean, I'm so very young too. I'm not married, I don't have children, heck, I just started my adult life, but I do want to give you what little advice I have. My dears, these are the things I want you to know.

Keep Reading...Show less
ORHS Graduation
Kristen Sack, ORHS Graduation

You are a senior in high school, you have made it to the final year that you have been looking forward to since the first day of freshman year. Whether this has been the worst or best four years of your life, appreciate it. You will never have these times back, you will never be in high school again. It is hard for someone still in high school to wrap their brain around, but there will be a day when you wish you could be in the shoes you're in right now. Here are 15 things I have learned being in college that I wish I knew as a high school senior:

Keep Reading...Show less
one tree hill
Wikimedia

Everyone, and I mean everyone has heard of the show "One Tree Hill". Many people think that this show is the best thing they've ever watched and others won't bother watching it because they know they'll get hooked. And yes, I know many people have written about this show before, but I couldn't resist. I could re-watch every season multiple times to the point where I can almost quote an entire scene. Trust me, once you start "One Tree Hill", you will be hooked. There's way too many reasons to list as to why you'll love this show, and these are just a few.

Keep Reading...Show less
Health and Wellness

5 Ways To Bring Positivity Into Your Life When All You Want To Do Is Drown In Self-Pity

It seems like life has been serving up more bad than good and in all honesty, the only thing you want to do is crawl under your covers and hide from the rest of the world.

1945
5 Ways To Bring Positivity Into Your Life When All You Want To Do Is Drown In Self-Pity
Photo by Kinga Howard on Unsplash

The first two weeks of classes have come to an end and they have been anything BUT easy. It seems like life has been serving up more bad than good and in all honesty, the only thing you want to do is crawl under your covers and hide from the rest of the world.

Although this seems like the best solution, it is also the easy way out. Take it from the girl who took basically a whole week off from her life because she just could not handle everything that was being thrown at her. This caused her to feel extremely lonely and even more stressed out for being behind in classes that JUST began.

Keep Reading...Show less
friends

1. Thank you for being my person.

2. Thank you for knowing me better than I know myself sometimes.

Keep Reading...Show less

Subscribe to Our Newsletter

Facebook Comments