TCK Gets Real - Losing Your Friends Part I

[Nyder]

Did you go to ISB? What years?

[meganmcdonald2006]

Thanks for this video! I really related - especially to what you said about how others view TCKs as 'aloof' - I am actually a warm demonstrative person but find it hard to trust of course...and am seen that way...it's difficult sometimes to realize that really great people just don't connect because of the way I sometimes appear.

[KatieFriday13]

*TCK hug*

I know the feeling, because that was my exact experience (minus the ninja turtles). I actually met one of my best friends because we both loved batman cartons :P

[mairabay]

hey man, very cool video! I'm a TCK too and I can feel yr pain. I hope to see on the next videos how you got through it all.

On losing friends...have you tried searching for them in Facebook,etc? I thought I had lost my best friend from Wales until we managed to write each other emails (back in the 90s) & it was really cool. Of course it's not the same thing & we're all grown up now anyway, but it's cool to have her on my FB and see what she's doing now and then.

again, cool video & take care!

[BigPrairieDude]

Came into this country in 1951. We are peas in a pod except then we had the beatings to suffer as an extra non acceptance. Wish I could tell you it gets better when you get older but I still feel a fish out of place. Now I have made my own niche inside. Have one best friend and am glad to have her even though we are 1700 miles apart. She also was a TCK from Chile. I was from Italy originally but when I went back in 2000 everything had changed so much I felt out of place there.

[soulofbass2]

thanks for sharing a part of your story, i just finished watching your fairy tale video and couldnt help noticing some similarities in the themes between it and my last song in a day.

[BigPrairieDude]

I have always wondered how much the feeling of "not acceptance" affected my relationships. I always seemed to keep on trying past the point where the majority of people would have moved on. Always trying for a second, third or fourth chance no matter how much time had passed. We do have a lot of similarity. Interesting.

[mutu2]

tried to comment last week - but for some reason would not accept. I am also a fellow TCK - who survived Dalat!

[soulofbass2]

congrats on surviving dalat!

[jenzatron]

I know exactly how you feel. TCK here too. Do you find that TCKs are different depending on being an only child or a child with siblings?

[soulofbass]

i find most everyone is different depending on whether they are an only child, first child, middle child and so on, TCKs definitely not exempt here, what do you think?

[jenzatron]

I can see that. I am a middle child and have always felt quite detached from my family. Being a TCK definitely didn't help. I've been told I come off as quite aloof but that's because I feel quite awkward when I meet new people. I'm very friendly though, and learned to befriend people rather quickly when I felt the need to which.. isn't very often.

[ricerhater9]

man your awesome and a great influence to other tck's... ninja turtels... .you bring a good spirit to other ppl. thanks man.

[MrBritishLove]

Bro, what do you like consider home right now for you ? And btw, i loveeeeeee the Nigja Turtles :-)

[soulofbass]

home is wherever i am, at least i try to make it so. ninja turtles rule!

[mkgurl90]

heeeey souldofbass. another tck here. so what was your parents career that you lived in thailand?

it's cool of you to post these videos. I can relate to just about everything u've said at some point or another in my life. I still deal with a lot of loss every now and then, and i definitely feel out of place sometimes, but I am at a great peace with who I am and why I am the way I am. I love that I'm a tck. I feel that in the long run, the blessings outweigh the negative. YOu know?

[soulofbass]

i think i do know and to answer your question my parents are missionaries. thanks for leaving a comment!

[krumbine]

Wonderful ... I hope one day I'm allowed to get this personal. It's certainly a very deep insight into your life and who you are.

[soulofbass]

nice to hear from you krumbine, i do feel a bit "naked" after posting these vids. you definitely have my permission to undress yourself on youtube in front of me

[arrowsk8rman20]

i like this video, i respect it a lot

[soulofbass]

thanks for the respect.

[soulofbass]

no not really, i would call this planet home though.

[Prismatic19]

ninja turtles were the best. do you feel like there is certin place now that you are grown up that is home to you?