Suddenly I am a stranger in a strange land, how about you?

Question

Thank you all my dear friends. I hate picking a best answer, they all are to me, as real & as important as each of you.

Answer 1

I must disagree with you on this one...

Most everything seems strangely familiar to me...
That including you, my friend...

Answer 2

Welcome, stranger ! Been here for a billion years or two. :-)))

How many days has it been since I was born
How many days until I die
Do I know any ways that I can make you laugh
Or do I only know how to make you cry
When the baby looks around him
It's such a sight to see
He shares a simple secret with the wise man

He's a stranger in a strange land
Just a stranger in a strange land
Tell me why he's a stranger in a strange land
Just a stranger in a strange land

How many miles will it take to see the sun
And how many years until it's done
Kiss my confusion away in the night
Lay by my side when the morning comes
And the baby looks around him
And shares his bed of hay
With the burrow in the palace of the king

He's a stranger in a strange land
Tell me why, he�s a stranger in a strange land
Just a stranger in a strange land
Just a stranger in a strange land

Well, I don't exactly know what's going on in the world today
Don't know what there is to say
About the way the people are treating each other
Not like brothers
Leaders take us far away
From ecology
With mythology
And astrology
Has got some words to say about the way we live today
Why can't we learn to love each other
It's time to learn a new faith
To the whole world wide human race
Stop the money chase
and Lay back
Relax
Get back on the human track
Stop racing toward oblivion
Oh, such a sad, sad state we're in and that's a thing
Do you recognize the bells of truth when you hear them ring
Won't you stop and listen to the children sing Won�t you sing it children
Won't you come on and sing it children (He's a stranger in a strange land) Whoa, sing it one more time, I didn�t hear ya
(Just a stranger in a strange land)
(He's a stranger in a strange land)
(Just a stranger in a strange land.)

"Stranger in a Strange Land"

Leon Russell

{{{{{{{Cosmic Home}}}}}}}

Answer 3

I was. For over 5 years I have been trapped indoors due to ill health. In August this year a wonderful surgeon gave me a new hip and knee on my left leg and suddenly I can get outdoors again. It's strange to me as 18 months ago I moved from a house into a flat so don't know any of my neighbours. So I struggle every day to walk a few steps . The little old lady opposite comes out and peeps at me and I smile and say Hello, then the chap next door walks past and I smile and say Hello. I walk a few more steps and the man and wife in the house at the end are in their garden so I smile and say Hello. Now I am not a stranger anymore, and I have a lot of new friends. Remember this, there are no strangers, they are just friends you haven't yet made!

Answer 4

Cheer up.

This is Yahoo and as strange as it gets it becomes home.

And now a little mood music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eqt37_85Do&mode=related&search=

In other words, people like the strange and authentic over the same old thing. That is why we buy things marked "New and Improved". "Old and the Same" just doesn't sound that good. That is why we have Coke Classic. New Coke stunk but people bought it. Now, we have Coke Zero where we pay more to get less.

The moral of all this is there is nothing wrong with being a stranger in a strange land if in being a stranger in a strange land you learn to appreciate who you are. Besides, everytime a person says that phrase a party breaks out to welcome them home.

Answer 5

Exactly...

This is my home…
At least…for now.
Amidst these strange settings of Mao.
Alienated with the where’s
But fascinated with the how’s.
Where life is easier in
Terms of stuff,..
But less fulfilling to the heart.



NEITHER BLACK OR WHITE

Is it a blessing or a curse?...
I got all I needed in the past;
The things I stared at but couldn’t touch
Are now all there within my grasp.

Did I think about some greener pastures?...
Or the fortunes that could be found?
Was it amusement for myself
That I could reach some foreign land?

Is it a matter of good luck?...
Or a chance to test my heart?
I reached all I thought I planned,
But my soul just couldn’t mend.

This is not what I longed for
All those times from way back home.
A good job that would pay more?…
But oh! My peace ran out the door.

For some, it’s branded as success.
To me, it’s all misleading mess!
This four damn walled noise of a place….
This isn’t where my dreams are made?

So you who think that life is easy
Building castles off your shore…
Think before you spread your wings…
Or you’ll get hooked up to the core!

----- jach_v

Answer 6

I've always been a stranger in a strange land. I'm not a perfect stranger, but I'm stranger than most. Over time I've learned how to fit in, but the essential differences make close connections difficult. The primary advantage is that I'm able to leverage my unusual perspective to spot solutions that others can't.

Answer 7

This seems like a strange comment coming from a Thoreauly
balanced-sounding profile. Come on, we're ready and waiting. Give us something to chew on and we'll repay the favor. Them possums are almost human sometimes. I had a stare-down with one in my chicken coop once, weird. Talk about being a stranger in a strange land, he sure was. I didn't have to join him there if I didn't want to. How 'bout you?

Answer 8

Came to this world that way, and I'm still looking to find the place where I'm not a stranger in a strange land.

Answer 9

Not many people can fall, coyotes fall all the time. It really gets interesting when there is nothing to hang on to. At first there is the lull, silent warriors watch and wait. The rise of the Phoenix must first be proceeded by burnt offerings, the burning away of old ideas to be born anew. To be able to fly the new being must drop, drop all. Shape-shifting is not so easy or everyone would be doing it. The wings sprout and the fall turns into flight, flight into the unknown, then the messages pour forth but who can listen? Angels know this also.

Answer 10

no I am still in my familiar land but I would love to go to Greece, Italy England and Paris and be a stranger for a few days heheheh

and then I can pretend like an actress to be in the strange lands and fit in like the locals what fun I would have hehehehehehe

Answer 11

Alistair Begg said something like that a few months ago. He said that as Christians, earth is not our home, heaven is. We are supposed to be in the world but not of the world. "We are not permanent residents here. We are strangers in a foreign land." It's a struggle sometimes, but I'm trying to become a stranger here. I will say that the further I go in my walk with God, the easier it gets.

Amplified Bible (AMP)
If you belonged to the world, the world would treat you with affection and would love you as its own. But because you are not of the world [no longer one with it], but I have chosen (selected) you out of the world, the world hates (detests) you.
John 15:18-20

Amplified Bible (AMP)
I have given and delivered to them Your word (message) and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world [do not belong to the world], just as I am not of the world.
John 17:13-15