RE: Ever Wanted to Just Pack Up Your Life and Move Far Far FAR Away?
I have had this feeling all my life, but I never saw it as running away. Rather as not really belonging. As a child we moved a lot. I have lived in both Norway and Sweden and talks the languages quite well, but I think that it also made me rootless. So in my youth I travelled a lot and lived in other countries. But then I meet the woman of my life and we had children, so for practical reasons we have lived in Copenhagen for many years now. My daughters are Copenhagen girls, talks the local accent and are slightly vilified by the countryside. The are not afraid of Muslims, but of slugs and flies.
I still do dream of a small windblown house on the westcoast of Scotland, and some day I might buy it (cheaply when Brexit has broken the UK) but until now I have to respect my two 'hjemfødinge' girls.
Interesting story... appreciate the share @katharsisdrill. I grew up pretty "rootless," as well-- my parents were what you might call "global nomads." Although my passport says "DANMARK" on the front, I maybe spent a cumulative 8 of my first 18 years actually in Denmark... otherwise it was six months here, a year there, eight months somewhere else.
Circumstances... after University, I anchored myself with a US citizen wife and a business, but it didn't do much for the sense of rootlessness on the inside.
That made me laugh... thanks!
I found peace with my move from Texas to Washington state... came to realize that some of my sense of "not belonging" was related to putting someone from the cold north in a place where 35-40 degrees (C) in the summer was a daily occurrence. Haven't had any desire to move since then... although we still do go back to Denmark for vacation once every 2-3 years.