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In reply to the discussion: After 12 years and almost 20,000 posts it's time to move away. [View all]slipslidingaway
(21,210 posts)we all want to belong!
In grammar school and HS when I did not always conform, guess on some level I am still rebelling
Meeting my best friend from HS next week, she is from Caracas and have not seen her since 1994, when I befriended her the Nun's at my Catholic boarding school called my parents in to 'discuss the matter' as I was hanging out with the South/Central America students, but we were listening in the hallway. My Mom, who departed this world way too early exclaimed, "Is there something wrong with them" and listening secretly I said YES!
We can become prejudiced at an early age or we cannot, our experiences easily shape our lives, the more we are exposed to other people and cultures the better off we all will be.
We are in this world together, another instance, we had a Muslim, a Jewish person and a Christian whom met at the American Cancer's Society Hope Lodge in NYC after a receiving bone marrow/stem cell transplant. Religion did not play a central role, survival did, we shared meds just as we did during my husband's first transplant (this is his second transplant) when the insurance companies were total assholes. We persevered in order to survive.
I cannot be easily herded, watched that movie many times before, not a team player, especially when I am told to fend for myself and suddenly I am expected to be a team player?