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Your ‘Tribe’ Are The Ones Who Truly Understand

Finding ‘your tribe’, can be the answer to living your full on, absolutely best ever life!

Carolyn Cordon
2 min readMay 5, 2021
Some of these people are definitely members of my tribe! I’m the one on the front right.

We all have friends, companions, colleagues, partners, spouses, team mates, lovers, mates, but may still feel there’s something missing. When I was an older teen, then young woman, up to my mid twenties, I always knew I had one friend for sure, who understood me, and my life.

We’d grown up together, Wendy and I, from our late pre-teen years, though tumultuous teen years, and into our early working years, before our lives were taken over by ‘the loves of our lives’, and we had become married women.

And through it all, we understood each other. WE were members of the same tribe. But those times are over now, a terrible tragedy stole my best ever friend from me, and I thought for quite a few years I would never again find friends who could become ‘tribe members’, and who understood, at least a little who I truly was.

But as a person grows older, wisdom can come along too, and you might step out, try different things out, and hey presto, along come new people, ones who understand, and care about what you care about.

So it has been for me, and now I am proud to say I’ve found my tribe, friends, fellow writers, who care…

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Carolyn Cordon
Carolyn Cordon

Written by Carolyn Cordon

Writer & Presenter — Poetry, prose, blogging, editor Mallala Crossroad Chronicle. Words are my tools, I use them well!

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