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Does anyone else feel completely rootless?

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Nimchinge · 25/11/2021 21:08

I grew up all over the place. Family scattered all over the world. Ended up choosing a job I can do from anywhere. I feel footloose, not anchored anywhere. Wherever I go I feel like I should go somewhere else. I miss the UK and want to go back to live there. But then when I'm there I feel like l would be better off elsewhere. It's like I have a permanent veil of sadness, i think from having been rootless as a child and continuing that.
Does anyone else feel this way? If you have and "solved it", how did you do that?
It's been this way for years and I've worn myself out now. I don't know where to go or what to do. Feels like an impasse.

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SunSetDreaming · 23/05/2022 19:15

I find this thread fascinating as my brother and I moved around a lot as kids - forces family.
We have both had the opposite reaction to not having a 'place where we're from', we are also polar opposite personality wise.
I love the freedom of not being stuck in one place and will go wherever the job, family situation or life stage requires whereas my brother has set down roots with a wife who has strong family attachments to their area and would never move as that's where the family is.
Definitely no right or wrong here but I find it so interesting that we've had exact opposite responses to our 'nomadic' family upbringing.

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