This is more important, than the residence being, at a, good location, because having a good neighbor is for life (if you plan to stay in your residence for a long, long, long time!)…translated…
The house next door had been on the markets for almost two decades, but, nobody asked about it. Its balcony was taken over by my husband's green thumb ventures, and the doorway became my children's bicycle parking lot. I'd originally, believed that we will keep on, owning this, dual duplex, but, five years ago, someone bought the place, and we'd, immediately, started the retreat, and, cleared off the lot we'd, taken over.
But, the neighbors who bump into each other every day in the stairs, are they, easy to get along with? And, aren't they, fearful of the fengshui of the residence, being, directly faced to, the roads? Before we met face to face, I'd felt ill at, ease.
Firs time we'd bumped into each other was after I just showed, climbed up to the balcony of the roof, in my loose pajamas, ready to dump my laundry load into the washer, I'd heard my neighbor coming too, I still had the towel wrapped around my head. At the moment, it was, quite, awkward, it was like the two of us were, seeing one another, naked, not knowing where we can, hide, and so, we'd, only, casually, nodded to one another, I'd pressed the start button on the washer, then, rushed back to my apartment then. It seemed, that in the future, I'd needed to be, fully, dressed for these trips up to the roof then!
The time waiting for the garbage trucks that's best of connecting, my new neighbors were the "Sheng's", my last name was "Wu", we both had minority last names, after a few times of chit chat, I'd found, that we connected pretty well. And she'd told me that she'd purchased this residence, because it was closer to her older sister's, and secondly, the apartment was directly at the middle of the road, which is good, for to back her car right in to the garage. And as I'd heard her reasons in thinking in reverse, I'd finally, felt, relieved, that my new neighbor wasn't, anal at all!
this is what makes our properties, that much MORE, valuable...photo from online
Ms. Sheng loved the flowers and plants too, in a couple of years, the lanai is, blooming, especially the sweet olive that constantly gives off that aromatic scent, every time I went out, I'd, smelled it, and it'd, lifted up my moods. Once I saw her clipping the hedges, I'd commended her on being a green thumb, that the plants on the lanai that my husband looked after, for twenty whole years, paled by comparison to hers. She saw me picking up a malnourished pot of thyme, she'd taken the plant from my hand, said she'll, nurse it back to health for me. If only, I'd, become neighbors with her, a whole lot, earlier!
And ever since, "sharing" became our secret code. Every now and then, the surprise would, show up on my doorsteps, either the seasons fruits, vegetables, or the items stewed by her, or the famous delicacies from all over the places. And, because we don't really get to catch each other when we're both at home, so we'd, used LINE to let each other know, that things had been, placed, and, we'd still, received the kindness from one another, even if we don't see each other face to face for days on end.
Being blessed to be neighbors with Ms. Sheng, although we're not yet at the familiar of "Mi Casa Su Casa" yet, nor is going to sit in one another's home regularly our thing. But this, a bit connected, but not too clingy, this just right distance, was the fundamental basis, for setting up the amicable relationship with the neighbors.
So, this is how, you'd been blessed with a good neighbor, and surely, there were, the anticipations of what each other would be like, and how you would interact with one another, well or awful, but once you got to know each other, and found that you two had things in common, the rest is, history, and now, you're, relating to one another, on a regular basis, and, it is, a blessing to have the good neighbors, not all of us are as blessed, to have good neighbors, and so, we must, cherish the amicable relations with them, if we ever get to have these, well-rounded, interactions with our, neighbors.
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