My best friend and I have been talking about how we both feel like outsiders everywhere we go, and we're wondering if belonging is actually something that exists or if it's just a story we tell ourselves. We're the people each other calls when feeling displaced, but we can't figure out if our shared sense of not-belonging is its own form of belonging or just mutual alienation.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are confronting the possibility that their shared experience of exclusion might be the deepest form of belonging they've known.
“Where Are You with What belonging is — a philosophical definition?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.