Sisterhood

TheFeatheredSleep


Sometimes 

As a woman

You feel very apart

Striving for sisterhood

From other women

Comparing and similar

As if they

Are all sitting together

Heads down and touching

listening to a song

Whose lyrics

You cannot hear

98 thoughts on “Sisterhood”

  3. Love this. i have always felt this in a group of guys because I am not a car guy or a sports stat guy. So often I am outside looking in wishing I could be in the loop.
    It is often lonely in my world.

  7. That’s how I feel with all my ‘mom’ friends, totally out of the club. And sort of pitied even though it was my choice. So I completely related to this!

  13. Perhaps you are on the right track feeling ‘excluded’. I certainly have a similar feeling. I’m growing more and more towards the idea that groups are, of their essence, wrong. We are individuals, unique, and to imagine that we automatically share something hugely important with others on the grounds of colour, gender, nationality, age, residence etc etc isn’t very helpful. We have to learn to be self-sufficient and to empathise with individuals not groups.

  14. That, is from the desires to fit in, with the rest of the “group”, but no matter how you adjust your angles, your sides, you just, don’t fit into that missing piece of the bigger picture, which means, that the “puzzle” you’re trying to fit your self into isn’t the right one, and you should just, start a brand new puzzle on your own!

  17. Love your insight, Jane. As always 🙂 Your comment here really clicks with me as I just finished reading Anthem by Ayn Rand this week.

  18. As a little brother I am always loved 🙂 but I know a girl who has the suffers as you so eloquently put it. Lovely, thank you

  20. Yes, this is so often the way it is.
    In my weird synchronicity thing 🙂 –I was just thinking about this subject last night while binge watching the new Anne of Green Gables on Netflix (Anne with an E), with Anne trying and failing to fit in with the other girls.

  23. You find the most interesting images for your posts ! Where on earth do you dig them up?Do you have a secret stash or are they your creations ?

  24. Comparing and similar – that has so much accuracy and power. I appreciate the imagery of the heads down – it speaks of exclusion. I agree with Jane; the focus on our individuality is essential. Great write!

  34. I’m pig-ignorant really, Jilly. Don’t read nearly enough contemporary writing, but living cheek by jowl with very diverse ‘communities’ has made me realise that the only way to get on with people is as individuals, not as members of a group. You’re sunk if you start off with prejudices. One reason why I hate political correctness.

  35. I can see why others loved your reply. It goes without saying you’re an exception to most rules and I’d be in a group with you in a heartbeat but I agree, the individual is relegated and ought not to be

  48. I just find it so sad when people identify themselves with a group, which automatically means—so that explains why I think/behave the way I do. No notion of self, the self that floats in the néant, the only self you can count on, the self that makes you what you are.

  49. That’s why soon after meeting you, you distinguished yourself as a rare bird, a free thinker and unafraid to say. Helps that you’re maddeningly talented I am inspired by your realistic attitude and pragmatism but you’re a dreamer too. Agreement, groups water down the discern our socities wish us to relinquish

  50. But it can be very lonely sometimes! Lonely among friends – a strange phenomenon.

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