I work and live on the very spot my family have inhabited for at least a thousand years and probably two thousand or more. I know in my head that I am very firmly rooted here but my heart has always felt Scandinavian or Russian. Watching Swedish TV and film as a teenager, it always looked like my idea of home. It's difficult to explain. I know I'm English and I fit here. Part of me just thinks that somewhere else is home. An ancestral home, maybe. I don't know. It really is very difficult to explain.
So I vaguely know what you mean, yes, but I think it's for different reasons with me. I also feel a bit out of place in this time. 700-800AD feels more like where I should be. Maybe I'm the reincarnation of a Viking?
Is it normal to feel like you were born in the wrong country?
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I work and live on the very spot my family have inhabited for at least a thousand years and probably two thousand or more. I know in my head that I am very firmly rooted here but my heart has always felt Scandinavian or Russian. Watching Swedish TV and film as a teenager, it always looked like my idea of home. It's difficult to explain. I know I'm English and I fit here. Part of me just thinks that somewhere else is home. An ancestral home, maybe. I don't know. It really is very difficult to explain.
So I vaguely know what you mean, yes, but I think it's for different reasons with me. I also feel a bit out of place in this time. 700-800AD feels more like where I should be. Maybe I'm the reincarnation of a Viking?