Anyone else have a hard time fitting in when you go back home?
I've had pretty amazing opportunities. All of my adult life has been spent traveling, working abroad, or working in order to travel. I've almost always came home in the summer and worked as it is our busy season and I make $25-35/hr as a waitress. I can come home and live with my parents (until this year, I also helped with the full time care of my grandmother so I wasn't a complete mooch. Now I am....) and I've realized that I don't have much common ground with my coworkers or other people my age. I have no kids (I'm 26 and a TON of my peers are either pregnant or have little ones) I try to catch myself before again something like "oh yea when I was in X country..." A lot of people around here have barely left the state let alone the country. People take pride in never taking a vacation day in 10 years.
Idk, I'm just feeling like I have a really hard time relating with people anymore. Not that either of our lifestyles are better or worse, they are just so. Different. I worked in Antarctica for 2 seasons and I absolutely loved the people I met. They were all the same breed as me. Unfortunately I had a bad experience with one of the companies and I won't go back. But I miss those people. I fit into those people.
I used to feel at home in hostels, hell I spent months living in them every year. Now I feel like I've "aged" out of them a bit. I'm tired of the transient friends you connect with super well and then never see them again. But I don't know how to make real friends.
Idk, I'm a few drinks in after a rough day at work. But I'm feeling this hard tonight
Submitted May 04, 2019 at 08:14AM by Emnems http://bit.ly/2vCywH2
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