::yesterday::
glenn and i vegged for a good part of the day yesterday and then we decided to get moving at around four pm hit the burlington mall. glenn wanted to pick up a few things and i'm always up to some window shopping and people watching. i think that people are so odd nowadays. when i am people watching i count how many times i make eye contact with someone and yesterday was a bust. for the time that i was people watching not one person's eyes met with mine. don't you think that is odd? i guess being from the south i take offense to this more than others and if that sounds arrogant then i apologize but that is my feeling on the matter. i like to greet folks with a smile and a hey but that ain't gonna get done in this day and time.
the only people that i caught greeting one another were the folks from the middle east. they walk through the mall with their hands locked behind their backs as they are taking a relaxing stroll. when another walker from the middle east passes by they nod at one another and i thought that to be so telling. i was raised on the butt end of that era and it saddens me that i have no one to share it with. my neighborhood was my family and we knew each other and i don't just mean as those folks down the street, no. i mean joe and edna up the street said hello today. we knew everything about one another because we cared about one anothers well being but that isn't the way today. i have lived in my neighborhood now for almost 4 years and i don't know half of my neighbors and that saddens me. i've tried but they are bitin' and i can't make them interact with me if they don't want it.
my son and i have touched on this subject and come to find out this is happening all over the country. my son moved away from the boston area to south carolina thinking that the south is friendlier but found out that isn't so. now we aren't sure if the ones he came into contact with are transplanted southerners or true southerners but they are just as nasty there as any big city.
forgive me but i want to know my neighbors. i want to neighbor and i think it's my god given right to do so............don't you? of course i have the right to want it and you have the right not to want it and that folks is what being an american is all about. FREEDOM
Hugs, Zissy
The observation about Middle Easterners rings true for me. Where I work, about half the people I see all day are from India, and they are almost withour exception warm and open. Even if they were pasty-faced white, you could tell they're not "Murkins"! http://www.egoweblog.com/plugins/smileys/icons/simple/smiley_wink.gif
Posted by laozilover — 23 Oct 2005, 11:01
i appreciate you stopping by and commenting.
Hugs, Zissy
Posted by zissy — 23 Oct 2005, 11:22
I think that if you want a more friendly neighborhood, you have to set the example. People do say hello when I say hi to them in the mall here, even if I don't know them (and I never do), and places where I see the same faces regularly, they no longer wait for me, they often say hi first. Los Angeles is not especially a bastion of friendliness, but it is what you make it.
Posted by fractalv — 23 Oct 2005, 12:48
I only know one of my neighbours lol, some people just don't care. For
Posted by Jenn — 23 Oct 2005, 17:50
for the most part i didn't have hard time in hollywood because i was the apartment manager so of course all of my tenants were friendly but not overly so which is fine. i just want my neighbors to know if they ever need a hand that they can count on me but people just don't trust one another any more. times have changed and i guess i will just have to change with it but i'm not happy about it.
Posted by zissy — 23 Oct 2005, 19:00
I think that people are inherently lazy about neighboring. Or rather, have hectic schedules where the only time off they get is to actually think about the next thing they have to do(i.e. cook dinner, wash laundry, walk the dog, etc).
Then there are other people who just don't want to know you simply because they don't want you to know about their business. If we all dropped the excuses we probably would all be neighbors.
Posted by Glenn — 24 Oct 2005, 13:25
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