With cell phones, cable and the internet, people find less and less time to go out and associate with their neighbors in any kind of meaningful way. This creates misunderstandings, fear and sometimes ill feelings that don’t need to be there. Find time to walk out the door with the specific purpose of interacting with your neighbors. Get to know them. Even if you don’t know them, or feel they are not very nice, bake them some cookies, a pie or a loaf of bread, write them a short note – anything – and take it to them.
More than ever today, we need friends and hopeful positive feelings in our neighborhoods. We need to stop living in fear of each other, start taking care of each other and get to know each other. Some of my closest, most cherished friends began as misunderstood, pre-judged enemies!
