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bob peckham's avatar

Wow. So well said, those little niggles about the who and why of being, brought forth by looking at it all through a new and different lens. I could never express those thoughts so concisely nor so eloquently, but I can, and have, felt them. We've been here a couple of years now, I think that we all, in our own way, have had our eyes/ears/minds opened for examination... thank you!

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Adrienne Goetz's avatar

You always make me smile. Even with an "excavation of longing, regret, and prejudice ." As an enneagram four myself, I resounded with a great deal of what you said in this post. There is a sense of longing, not for the place or going back but for how things used to be. As fours, we, in particular, feel that; because we were made to. All enneagrams will feel it to some extent, but fours, well, we don't shy away from the deeper, scarier emotions. We poke at them, mull over them, argue with them, and question them for their authenticity. Living abroad and leaving the safe and the comfortable does not guarantee us a ticket to avoid that; if anything, at times, it makes that those emotions even more acute. I hope that even in the dark of night, you continue to poke, prod, mull over, and think through those emotions because somewhere, someday, someone will need your insight without going to the depths you did.

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