Hi Anita,
Sorry i haven’t checked the thread in a couple of days. No harm done. From a childhood perspective, i had a very ordinary (yet enjoyable) childhood. I love my parents, they love me. They have never been anything but supportive of my choices and abilities. I do have a younger brother, but we aren’t that close, he lives away from home and finished university a while ago. I guess the logical question is why? We are two very different people, very different likes and interests. Also he isn’t the nicest person to be around!

If anything my final 2 years of high school were very serious time in my life, i wanted a job and started an apprenticeship at the same time. So i guess i was different because a lot of my friends at the time were just hanging out and going to proms etc. I know, looking back that i regret not going to the prom or doing ‘guy stuff’, but i was either too busy or genuinely not interested at that time. I just focused on working and earning money. I personally feel this was the transition point of my life. For instance, i didn’t keep in contact with anyone after some time (when i graduated). Mainly because the guys i would hangout with at school didn’t have money, were always partying and complaining about university and assignments. I no longer had anything in common with them, besides the fact we went to the same school. Eventually everyone went their separate ways. From that point I have built relationships with people, but mainly those that i used to work with, but even those are more meetups every Christmas for lunch, since i no longer work in that particular industry, hence University.

I guess i have always wanted friends like the ones i would see on TV. And i have met them throughout my life, but it’s always been quite fleeting. As i stated in a previous post, those people have pursed other lives and live abroad. Although social media makes it easier, it’s not really the same. I used watch the power rangers, teenager mutant ninja turtles, etc. the love they had for one another is what i always wanted. To be able to just be yourself, and understand who you are.

For the morals and values part, it’s difficult to explain, because i don’t fully understand why i wrote that. I think i should of said that i relate more to older generations, like music, dress, character, one’s pride and self-respect (which is why when i was working most of the people i got along with were way older than myself). These kinds of concepts. I’m not saying that i identify as a man out of time, but simply that i find comfort in these kinds of things. Maybe because nowadays everything seems so chaotic and ruthless. The grass is always greener on the other side, right?

Thanks for being interested, Anita.