Serious thread: You ever feel ALIENATED from society sometimes?

[Unknown Poster]

First of all: I should preface this by saying I come from a unique situation and maybe this is the reason that I tend to feel this way more often than not. It's taken me a while to fully contextualize these feelings into words that other people could truly comprehend without veering off into anything to abstract. And
i do not want to come off as some holier than thou douche bag writing this. Some of you are going to make fun of this and pop jokes, that's cool. I So...here it goes.

I think in a way, I've always felt alienated from this society. There are days where I truly wonder what my place is in this life and in this world...not just this country called America.

The older I get, absolutely nothing about this society makes sense to me. I really feel at times I am on the outside looking in of EVERYTHING. Luckily my outlook on life at the age oif 33 hasn't hindered my ability to find happiness...but I am constantly questioning my surroundings.

I don't even know how to express it.

Other than by saying if I had a choice to opt out of this society...I would in a heartbeat.

 

[Marti]

I use to have that feeling back in college/start of my professional career until i started traveling and seeing whats more to life.

I am still on that journey to find self but at least im enjoying it in my travels

 

[Bunchy Carter]

No.

 

[smokeurobinson]

Not really....I got Knowledge Of Self as a teen, Read The Supreme Wisdom at 17 and acknowledge the 85% are the blind deaf and dumb. Aint no alienating...we over hear trying not to be 85% while at the same time trying to fit somewhere between the 10% and 5%.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Sometimes, I feel because of this, it's hurt my chances at truly living the life I want to live but...eff it.

Maybe if I didn't question this society so much I wouldn't feel alienated by it.
Maybe if I just "played the game" and swept myself up in a whirlpool of ignorant bliss, I would feel more willing to be an active participant in this society.
This society that has judged you, sized you up, built you up, broke you down. This society that has taught you, from child, to teen, to adult that it must be taken seriously more than anything else, even the very facets of your existence and the fibre of your being.
This society that teaches us our value due to our height, weight, beauty, skin colour, class, sex, gender, orientation, and how to deal accordingly with it.
Even though under these things that make up the husk of our physical bodies, we are all consistent of the same bone structure.
This society that puts money on the highest pedestal even over people and things.
This society, that tells us, that if we don't go to college, graduate, get a good job, get married, have kids, that we are not worthy to be living in it.

Ok...I give up writing this...

 

[Thanos]

When I was younger, I felt the same. But now, I have more of a sense of self, but can't find anyone on my level to be around, kinda alienating.

 

[SirReginald]

All the time bro and I'm at the point of not giving a fukk. Granted like, I'm still going follow the law, but for now it's me and ME only. I've learned the hard way that you can't trust people.

I didn't turn on society; society turned on me.

 

[PhonZhi]

 

[hostsamurai]

Somewhat, it feels everyone's living just to live and I want something extraordinary. I would rather fall from the penthouse than refuse to take a step after reaching the 1st floor.

My life experiences and my traditions make it such that I can shut off my humanity and deal with most social situations that crop up. But few can do this, and I come off as cool, calm guy when I'm anything but.

 

[Lo-Co]

I use to have that feeling back in college/start of my professional career until i started traveling and seeing whats more to life.

I am still on that journey to find self but at least im enjoying it in my travels

Definitely feel you on that one. I was on the loner vibe for most of my college experience. I think getting a job that made me work with people changed that completely.
And I've taken interest in more productive things, and I now know how to just be.

 

[NotAnFBIagent]

All the time

 

[Geek Nasty]

I don't get the love people have for social media and putting ALL their business on the internet. And the way people don't respect privacy anymore.

 

[b_low_brown]

Being broke certainly does a number on the psyche

 

[Vandelay]

Because I'm generally not social about superficiality, yes.

 

[Maude]

Do you feel alone? If so I think it’s by design. The capitalistic design of America creates this every man for himself attitude. We don’t really encourage unity and community.

If you on that fukk society tip. It’s like minded people out.