An Essay on Belonging Belonging is a natural reaction, intrinsic. We search in order to find a community, a group of friends, a country in which we belong. America is a place whereWhen we feel uncomfortable, we say “I don’t belong here” and when you find a situation in which you are happy, you can be yourself, natural and free you feel as if it was created only for you. It can also be …showed first 75 words of 415 total…

…showed last 75 words of 415 total…live with the constant attention of being gawked and stared at, around each corner, in each subway car, in every restaurant, everywhere. I didn’t belong, but I could never belong and it was a liberating experience, one which taught me in a way the rules for living on the fringe of a society. Rules, or lack of, which shaped me more as an individual than any thing else I had experienced in my life.”