Misfits in Desi Society

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Re: Misfits in Desi Society

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I don’t find limited to any single society and culture. I guess that is what happens growing up in multiple cultures and countries. I appreciate and enjoy aspects of all, and am not a fan of some aspects of all, but I navigate in and out without feeling a need to fit in any single one.

The random chance that I was born into a intersect of a certain race, religion, ethnicity, nationality is just that isn’t it… i don’t feel a need to try and fit in to what the norms of that intersect are. They are artificial. ..loved and revered by many..but still self made, and no universal truth.

Is non conformist the right term, don’t know…don’t have an issue conforming while interacting with people of that group, but its out of respect for them that I will observe their traditions and culture when with them, but away from it, I do not adapt it unless i find that it personally resonates with me, and even then I drop off and pick up stuff along the way. I was told that this way I am lost and wandering, my response was…I don’t trust any caravan is necessarily headed the right way any way

I want to be just like you when I grow up.

You said it so much better than I ever could. I wish I had better people skills. I think that is the biggest reason why I feel the way I do.