My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a \"lone traveler\" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
From my earliest days to well into my thirties, I often felt achingly lonely, an oddball.\u00c2\u00a0 Einstein was my childhood idol.\u00c2\u00a0 It was his life story that inspired me to start down the road of becoming a physicist.\u00c2\u00a0 His self-description as a \"lone traveler\" was\u00c2\u00a0 solace for me.\u00c2\u00a0 I used to hope that one day I'd grow up to be as special and singular a figure as Einstein.\u00c2\u00a0 (No lack of ambition there, eh?)<\/p>\n
Part of growing up for me is to accept that I am no Einstein (nor even a journeyman physicist for that matter).\u00c2\u00a0 A side effect of\u00c2\u00a0 self-acceptance:\u00c2\u00a0 I no longer feel so lonely.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I am really like the people around me. I'm also so blessed to have the love of family and friends who accept me for who I am, in spite of\u00c2\u00a0 my unrealized ambitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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