Few nights ago, after getting off from the bus, I realized there's a guy walking behind me. He followed me closely even when I was about to enter the building. Was someone stalking me? I was standing on guard. Well, I was tired and I didn't want any drama or disaster to happen. After I entered the building, he followed me immediatey. All right, maybe he's just one of the tenants. So I took out my touchlock to enter the floor where my apartment is located, he came in as well before the door closed itself. All right, this is really a bit strange. So I slowed down with all my nerves on. Luckily he walked pass me. While I was approaching my door, he stopped!! What was he going to do? He better not take out a pistol or a knife!! Ok, thankfully I was just too imaginative. He was actually taking out his keys and went into the apartment next door of mine. Oops, so he's actually my neighbor on the left and I didn't even notice it until that moment.
During our lunch discussion, we were casually chatting how we only manage to see our neighbors during summer because the weather is pleasant and people tend to be more active to go out for outdoor activities. When the weather becomes colder, everyone prefers to stay in doors. This observation does make some sense. I did hear more noise during this summer. Other than this, I think city people are generally bearing a life of solitude and do not mix around much with their neighbors. This is a pretty weird thing. Someone is staying so close to us and yet there's no communication. I haven't been staying in the countryside before. But I would guess at least you get to visit your neighbors on certain occasions. I always heard about my paternal grandmother mentioning about her gossips with so-and-so in the neighborhood whenever I was visiting her last time. So this makes me think that not hanging out with neighbors is a city phenomenon. We are too busy with our work life, our social life and by the time we get home, we're drop dead tired and what we want is to get some time for ourselves and rest.
Do you know all your neighbors? Probably you are better than me. I have 5 neighbors in close proximity. (left, right, opposite, opposite left and opposite right). I'm now down to 4 in the list to hunt out who are these 4 people. Eh, maybe I'll get to find out the next one in my next late night home. Oh no, not another freakin' moment!!
♥ every page of my imagination
