Exile.

Exile is distance, disconnection.
Exile is foreignness.
To be exiled from your country, from your home, from your family, your community.
Spiritual and physical displacement of a person from their familiar culture.
Exile is living in separation. Separation from the identity which is rooted deep in our consciousness.
Exile can be willful immigration or for lack of choice, but it can also be a spiritual separation from one’s identity. A person can also be exiled within his or her own country, in certain sociopolitical conditions. A person can also be exiled within his or her self in certain conflicts
of gender or religion.
Exile is also memories and longing for different periods of time, habits, people, culture.
A person needs boundaries in order to belong. A limitation of one’s physical and spiritual boundaries, thereby creating a clearly defined area of freedom in which one has a sense of physical, social and spiritual belonging and security - the opposite of exile.