Question:“On feeling left out”
On feeling left out
Feeling left out is the feeling of being outside, not the fact of it. Even those inside usually feel they are at the edge. The center of the circle is empty.
Do not wait to be let in. Choose one person and ask first, not the whole group but one. Doors do not belong to groups. They belong to people.
Eris alone was not invited to the wedding feast of Peleus. The golden apple she threw through the door became a ten-year war. What the one outside throws always lands inside the feast. She could have held a feast of her own instead.