I came back home after living in a continent for almost a year.

>>1166999
obviously we can't really know exactly what's going on from that alone, but yeah, I feel like this, but probably for very different reasons

people naturally connect emotionally to people who share their experiences.

having experienced many different things, you now naturally have less commonality with people.

people don't connect often on a purely intellectual level. so you can't talk to them about what you came to "understand" or whatever, but neither can you share your emotions with them.

congrats, you got a little older. it's natural.

you can either go back to having a somewhat limited perspective, and enjoy the same things as your peers again, and in exchange gain emotional warmth again, or you can continue to push traveling, and slowly become less relateable to normal people.

I haven't found a way out. I just try to keep contact with my closest friends, who drift away one by one. I speak three languages now, and I've found people in one of those languages relate to me a liiiittle better.

we're just getting old anon. find a wife and pop out some kids.

>>1166999
Not even trying to be rude, but what did you expect? A year is quite awhile, no matter how you cut it. Many people find a degree of separation that """extreme""" to be very distancing, but all that should tell you is that you were never super intimate friends in the first place if the responses you listed when you came back are what you experienced. You have some cool adventures under your belt now and that counts for a lot more than just staying put. I'm not saying flaunt it around, but you can safely know to yourself you've experienced things the vast majority won't.

>>1166999
I can easily interact with all kinds of people. I do sometimes keep a distance with people who are sometimes energy drainers people who are just all drama. But, I have accepted that I'm primarily introverted and need a lot of time on my own. Don't overthink or overanalyze. The right people will be accepting and the others you really don't need in your life anyway.

>>1167006
Oh my fucking god can you be any more pretentious you cunt

>muh traveling shapes character so much filthy normie plebs just can't connect with us anymore

>>1166999
Don't worry, you're just a real traveler now, hence your post number.

>>1168252
But it does shape character, travelling to SEA made me realize just how much I value freedom of speech, winter, safe roads, democracy and being able to isolate myself from filthy fucking normies and so on. I'm glad I went because now my waifu and I can live smugly with the knowledge that most of the filthy uncultured peasants over there will be denied entry to Canada and I'll likely never have to put up with them again as long as I avoid Hongcouver.

>>1168234
I've been away for half a year and also found out/ accepted that I'm introverted.
However, in my teenage years I used to be outgoing and kind of an extravert.
I wonder if I'll ever be the old me again :(