“As an adopted person, I think my entire life is defined by that flailing. You just don’t feel like you belong anywhere,” said Craig Mod on the Tim Ferris podcast.
I empathise with him. I may never be fully able to understand this, however, I still feel his pain.
Because I am someone who doesn’t feel I belong to my parents, even if they were the ones that brought me into this world.
And it’s okay, too.
One of the most important realisations of having a dysfunctional family is that you ought to parent yourself.
Of course, none of this compares to being adopted. But pain is not a ranking competition. Pain is a revealing confirmation.
