Like a discarded fallen old leaf for this is how I feel most of time on this holiday known as Thanksgiving. No one really says "Happy Thanksgiving" to me. I sit and listen, but I have nothing to add to anyone conversation for they all have memories that I do not have. They go out and I join, but they always head back into the house. I really do not fit in down here. I feel alone in a crowd of family. I would rather be totally alone that alone in a crowd. Alone in a crowd is just horrible.
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Mark Graham
I am a person who really likes to read and write and to share what I learned with all my education. My page will mainly be book reviews and critiques of old and new books that I have read and will read. There will also be other bits, too.
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Mark, this is so sad but relatable to many. I moved far from family years ago and sometimes could be with them for holidays. We just made friends as family. I know what you mean about being alone - a person can be his/her own best company.
I was also alone though I am rarely lonely and enjoy the solitude. My daughter has been in Nebraska for several months now, and as I did not announce it to anyone, I was not invited me anywhere to dinner (and that's with the clear assumption I would have been if they had known). I spent the day by baking a pound cake to take to a friend. We enjoyed a couple of hours drinking coffee before she visited with her own family. Holidays can be sad days for some, and I hate that you felt very alone, especially when surrounded by so many others. I wish you could move back north where it sounds as though you'd be much happier.
We are never alone in a world teeming, blooming, and buzzing with life, and our mystic souls commune with nature as well or better sometimes than with each other, or, at least, so have I found; but I am all too familiar with the feeling you describe. In any event, well-wrought, and I hope you won't mind me saying: Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy 😃 Day my friend, cause who really cares about holidays away? Forget about the holidays and family and live each and every day Happy!!!
That hit me so hard because it was relatable
You are unique...you aren't supposed to fit in, Mark. Happy Thanksgiving to your wonderful self :)
It’s very lonely in the crowd, I can relate.
I know what you mean. I honestly do