Subnostr

I guess to put it simply, it’s resilience. That ability to skate through daily life without what society would lead anyone to believe as the essentials for a growing and impressionable small human to positively develop and thrive. In other words, “not fucked up.”

A good 95% of the people I’ve gotten to know over the years with one or a full set of parents, share stories about them that I can never relate. I don’t have such stories to tell. I only listen and wonder if I was lucky for those whose parents were terrible to them or unfortunate that I didn’t feel that familial warmth.

mike 1y ago

I had parents, but I’m an only child and feel a sense of loneliness that friends with siblings don’t.

Now both my parents are gone (mum died and my father has Alzheimer’s) I don’t have anybody to share my childhood memories with.

I suspect this is a much smaller degree of what you feel.

I can only imagine how much more intense this feeling is for you.

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AK 👸🏻 1y ago

It seems we are opposite there. I have an older brother and we are each other’s anchors.

As they say that the grass is always greener but we’ve both come to terms with what we never had a long time ago.

💜

mike 1y ago

You are blessed.

To paraphrase, the grass always seems greener.

AK 👸🏻 1y ago

Same as you, 🫡