Where's My Place

I've spent a couple of weeks, give or take, wondering about where I fit in different groups and situations. I had a group of friends many, many years ago, that I thought I belonged to. Years have passed and through odd twists and turns though we mostly lost touch there has been occasional check ins with the folks in the group.

Recently there was a gathering where most of that old group got together, several of my friends were invited, the friends I hang out with now. It seems like I was one of the few left off the invitation list.

Is it weird for me to feel cuffuffled about not being invited? Is it weird for me to be looking back and wondering if my feeling of belonging to that group was misplaced all of these years later? To feel as though I was peripheral, am peripheral?


Does this carry forward? Am I where I think I am?