Strange turn of events for me - had a big family, everyone was real close - done a lot of things in my life and lived in many places - had many good friends -- but within a span of around five years, I lost contact with past friends & my family members all happened to pass away, all from natural causes -- REALLY STRANGE to basically find myself an "orphan" with almost no contacts! Sort of like some kind of movie "plot" that I could ever imagine ever happening to me. What would you do if suddenly you had no one? No ties - no obligations - no reason.... but you could go anywhere & do anything? Or not? Or, why? Where would you go? How?
2007-08-11 15:56:09 · 4 answers · asked by MistressD 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
What an opportunity!
Where many have no choice in family, you get the opportunity to form a new one of your choosing. Where many have ongoing stuggles with their friends and their relationships, you get to move on choose new and more satisfying opportunites.
Where others feel obligation and duty, you have the freedom to be as you choose without the restrictions that friends and family can impose on many.
Lucky you.
You are as fortunate or as unfortunate as you choose to believe.
2007-08-11 16:01:39 · answer #1 · answered by guru 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on how much you loved our family.
If you did, you will find yourself lost and in a state of grief.
At least for a while, and then you pick up the pieces of your life and live out the rest of your life.
Some pick up the threads of the remaining parts of your gene pool, nephews, niecesz, cousins etc.
You would be surprised.
LIke the other answer cited, some will find this an opportunity to reinvent your identity, recreate your origins. become reborn into a brand new person.
It is up to you.
I personally will probably keep close to whatever is left of the tattered threads , weave in some new ones , then call the motley crew my "family" , a mosaic ,modern version of a tartan,
2007-08-11 16:29:38 · answer #2 · answered by QuiteNewHere 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is exactly what happened to me, when I immigrated to the US a very long time ago. It may turn out to be a blessing in disguise, no one to meddle in your life and tell you how to live. You can easily make new friends and find a new family. Good Luck.
2007-08-11 16:36:31 · answer #3 · answered by mahli 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like you are obliged to make blues/country music.
Being a bike messenger is pretty fun too.
But honestly, I would just drift around until something felt "right". Why stay in a place if you aren't happy. Or, why leave if you are happy?
2007-08-11 16:38:39 · answer #4 · answered by nater4817 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋