I travelled to a new town last night, for work today, arriving later in the evening, and promptly getting lost.
Not geographically lost: Google knew where I was, but rather ‘lost’ from any space where I felt I belonged. The walk from the station was round the back of an industrial estate, and past the service entrance of the shopping mall, past the back of the cinema, and through subways and an underpass around empty car parks.
I felt uncomfortable everywhere: not unsafe, but just unwelcome.
This morning, everything looks different: normal, familiar. Known. I still have a feeling of being somewhere that is not ‘mine’, but I do not feel lost.
Use your sixty seconds today to consider how you come to belong somewhere.
And if it’s just a feature of time, or something else.
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