Are you the black sheep of your family?

A big yes. It was one of the reasons I lived half way across the world for 6 years. 😂

Mamapolo2016 · F

This reminded me of my just-older brother, now gone. We lived in Pennsylvania. He was discharged from the Marines in California and remained for more than forty years. In college psych he was given the assignment to write about his life from birth to the present. He described our idyllic childhood, which did seem so to us, although since there are no idyllic people, it didn't turn out that way.

His prof made this note in the margin: Sounds so wonderful! Isn't it interesting you choose to live three thousand miles away?

lauriethecolourful · F

@Mamapolo2016 This actually made me really sad. I think people have a notion in their heads about what their families or childhood was really like. We build it up so much in our heads that we start to believe it. Only to realise that this is not the case when we go home.

Mamapolo2016 · F

@lauriethecolourful Yes - but that doesn't negate the childhood. I learned as an adult my family far preferred a pretty lie to truth. But I was still loved and encouraged and protected.

Also, when we go home, we are not that child either. Changes in everybody.