Where do you belong?

Where do you “belong”?
Where do you not feel like you “belong,” even though it might make sense (geographically, culturally, etc.) for you to do so?
What makes the difference?

I was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I only lived there for about two or three years, then I moved to Indiana. Since then, I’ve been living in Indiana. I in some ways feel like I belong in Indiana, because I have been here for a majority of my lifetime. But, I still consider myself a native person from Michigan. I still want to go back and visit there. I haven’t been to Michigan in quite a long time. In spite of that, I still feel as if I belong there. It is my real home in a way, because I was born there. I can identify with people that live in Indiana, though, too. I have started to show somewhat of an Indiana accent. I don’t really like that fact, because sometimes I sound a little bit hickish. I know that my accent would not belong in Michigan. I also feel connected to Michigan, because it has been one of my dreams to go to college at the University of Michigan. It’s not that I don’t necessarily feel that I don’t belong in Indiana, I Just feel that in some ways I relate more to Michigan. In other ways, though, I feel like I relate more to Indiana, because of the fact that I live here and because I have grown up here and friends and I am sometimes proud of Indiana. For example, when the Colts won the superbowl, I was so excited. I felt proud that Indiana was known for something. The difference is that I was born in Michigan and that is where my hometown is kind of. I have lived in Indiana for my whole life basically. I could consider this my hometown in a way also, but I like to think of Michigan as my home, because not many of my friends are from Michigan so I feel more unique. I am proud of where I am from. Where I am from being Indiana and Michigan. It just depends on what I am proud of and then that determines which state I feel like I belong more.