Neighbors – inevitable acquaintances

You have a right to live your life as you wish. If you are tired of your parents, you may settle somewhere far from them. If you are sick and tired of your wife or husband, you can leave him/her and start new life. If you are fed up with your friends, it is much easier to get rid of them. However, it is almost impossible to get rid of your neighbors. You are doomed to live close to them. If your life closely to your neighbors is unbearable, you can act in the same way as in case with parents but they don’t deserve so much honor. When you leave your parents, you look like a winner and a fighter for freedom. However, when you move for another place because of your neighbors, you look like a loser, as you were forced to move because of the conditions they created. Even in case you have friendly relations with your neighbors, you hate them somewhere deep within your heart, because this friendship is very often motivated by absence of choice. Either you will have friendly relations with them or your life will be unbearable. That is why, understanding that the very absence of choice has caused friendliness of your relations with your neighbors. Friendly relations with neighbors are always the most vivid manifestation of hypocrisy. They are characterized by false smiling, trademark phrases and total insincerity. Despite all these negative features, you are doomed to have friendly relations with your neighbors. You have to put up with this situation and that is all.

Neighbors

There are so many people in the Earth that they live very close to each other. Population density is very high. That is why we all have neighbors. People who live without neighbors are either foresters or hermits. Thus we are doomed to have neighbors. This is a very good luck when you have good neighbors. Not very many people are so lucky. The generalized image of neighbors is very negative. Neighbors usually quarrel with each other, find fault with each other for mess and untidiness. Neighbors rarely become friends. It means that people in general are unfriendly and rude to each other. At first, when people get acquainted with each other, everything is ok, but later things change radically. Friendly relations change into a fight and so on. It is so very understandable, because it is often very difficult to find mutual understanding with your relatives to say nothing getting along with your neighbors. There is a stereotype in our society that neighbors should be enemies. I think that this stereotype in most cases determines relationships with neighbors in reality. Besides, people are egoistic and egocentric by nature and never want to compromise. The art of compromise is available to a handful of people. Those who master this art are the luckiest people in the world as they have an opportunity to live their lives without quarrels and having it out. We must learn to find mutual understanding with each other and respect each other. Only thus we will reach harmony in our relations. We must realize that we suffer from our inability to find mutual understanding at first.