Growing up my mother was always telling my siblings and I that our neighbors are like our families because they are the closest people we need in times of a helping hand. Then as a child I did not understand it too clearly until my adult age.
And right from when I left college and started working, I started to see the need for a loving and caring neighbors because we definitely needs people around us and not just ordinary people but people who will impact something in our lives especially if their are our neighbors.
There is nothing like living around people with good intention for you and those who sees you as a family despite you are not blood 馃└ related. Surrendered by good people in a place you woke up everyday is one big gift and one we must always cherish because that is another grace we are not seeing.
When I left my parents to secure a place of my own as an adult because my work place was far from where they lived, so I have to look for a closer apartment to cut cost 馃挷. To be honest I was so lucky to meet my first set of friends from being neighbors. I became so close to one of the ladies who took me like a sister because she has been around the environment for a year or two. We became so close to the extent that she introduced me to her parents.
I was so happy to have gotten a place where I met caring and loving people because I use to hear from some of my colleagues how terribly some of their neighbors behaves. And not just them but my friends who face bad behaved neighbors. So its a thing to appreciate those people around us who gives us peace of mind and go all the way to be good to us.
And later in the years, my neighbor friend got married that I even was involved so much in the wedding. Then she moved but that did not stop our relationship as we continued and ended up becoming family friends when I also got married. This I see as the result of meeting a loving and caring neighbor.
We visit each others, attend functions together and as the years went by, we became more closer that even when she lost her father I have to travel with her to her home town which she was so grateful to. And till date we have continued to stay like sisters, sharing our experiences together.
And moving on in life, I have met other neighbors when my immediate family and I moved to new locations. These time around, I got to meet families as neighbors. And there is this family that my family connected so well with. Once we moved into the new environment, I met the lady at a school I took my daughter to because her daughter is also a student there. So we started seeing each other often and before you know it, she invited my children for a friend鈥檚 daughter鈥檚 birthday. It was like a magic because today we have became so close and I hope our friendship blossom more than just neighbors.
This is my response to this prompt. And what are your relationships with your neighbors? Be it good, be it bad, please share with because we are all learning everyday. # Join Cross Culture Community.
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