Great Neighbors, Great Friends
The Happy Musing for the Day: Neighbors are nice, but even nicer are neighbors who are friends.
Neighbors? Where are they? Everywhere, but in many cases not a friend in sight! That's the best - to have neighbors who are friends.
People under 50 may not remember what it was like in the "old days" when neighbors were not just people you knew, but were also friends. Today with so much movement and personal disconnection it is rare to have neighbors you know and still rarer to have neighbors you could call friends.
I don't know how typical I am, but since I have been married (32 years) I have moved 28 times! And presently I'm in a rental for a year and have my eyes open to where I'll go next. One of my employees, who is 28 years old, has lived in the same small cottage for five years. She knows everyone in her complex and they are all friends.
On the street where I live now, I know my neighbors on both sides well enough to wave to in passing. But then several doors down the way is a lovely couple who are friends. Not close, but friends. Mary and John won my heart when they left a little container of pistachio nuts on my doorstep. We chat now and she visits my gallery on her walks with Scrumptious, her golden retriever.
That was the way of people in North Carolina when we lived there for a few years. People welcomed a newcomer with a little gift of fruit or flowers. Of course in North Carolina there was little movement. People stayed put and also people had time to spend getting to know one another. It was lovely. I'm glad I had time there when our son was very young. The pace there nurtured neighborliness and everyone was assumed to be a friend.
"Life is wonderful!"
Copyright 2008 Sally Huss