I love this post - the concept of environmental volatility and the realization that you can belong, not belong and belong again was very revealing to me! My takeaway; be grounded in self, and adaptable to environment. Also know how your environment can nourish / drain you based on alignment to your values
I’ve read this over and over in bits for the past few days. This experience. Belonging and not belonging is a thing I seem to meet over and over again.
Another one of your beautiful reads! There's so much intelligence, nuance and crisp articulation - yet it never gets heavy! Wonderful, loved it. Thank you for writing and sharing :) 🌻🌸
I used to feel really bad about myself in high school and it wasn’t until I got to college when I found myself surrounded by different and more optimistic people that I began to start thinking more highly of myself. I didn’t make the connection between this improvement and the people I was surrounded by until I read your piece.
So happy to see Baldwin here! I host a book club in India and Giovanni’s Room is our pick for the month. We are a group of more than 20 people who are reading the same book, I am just 30 pages in and already a fan!
It’s serendipitous to read something that is exactly what you needed to hear; thank you for writing this
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I love this post - the concept of environmental volatility and the realization that you can belong, not belong and belong again was very revealing to me! My takeaway; be grounded in self, and adaptable to environment. Also know how your environment can nourish / drain you based on alignment to your values
I’ve read this over and over in bits for the past few days. This experience. Belonging and not belonging is a thing I seem to meet over and over again.
Another one of your beautiful reads! There's so much intelligence, nuance and crisp articulation - yet it never gets heavy! Wonderful, loved it. Thank you for writing and sharing :) 🌻🌸
I used to feel really bad about myself in high school and it wasn’t until I got to college when I found myself surrounded by different and more optimistic people that I began to start thinking more highly of myself. I didn’t make the connection between this improvement and the people I was surrounded by until I read your piece.
So happy to see Baldwin here! I host a book club in India and Giovanni’s Room is our pick for the month. We are a group of more than 20 people who are reading the same book, I am just 30 pages in and already a fan!