ten years and we never met
I met my neighbor for the first time after we’ve been living on the same street for the past ten years. Yes, strange, isn’t it? All these years, we’ve been waving and smiling at each other whenever we passed each other. But we’ve never spoken.
Like me, she’s always busy running Mom’s taxi. And so we’ve never had the chance to actually meet face to face. Until today, that is.
I was waiting for my kids to pile into the car and I waved as she was just driving by. Suddenly she slowed down, wound down her window and we started talking.
It was so cool. She’s such a nice lady but we only got to talk for a few minutes as she had to drop off her youngest son at school.
Over the years, I’ve seen her kids grow and heard about their academic achievements and football trophies from the other neighbors, and she too apparently knows a little about my kids.
I can’t wait for another opportunity to catch her and have another friendly chat. I feel like I know her just from having waved at her all this while. Ever felt this way about someone?
- talking to your teens
- came to visit me, did you?
- the boy at school
- ami-chan blogs
- our project runway (2)
It was similar in one of my old neighborhoods. We’d always wave to all our neighbors as we drove by, but never talked to any of them except for the ones next door. But from the neighbors next door, we knew all about what was going on with the rest of the neighborhood :razz:.
Indeed, there’s a whole world out there! You won’t know what’s in store for you really outside your house if you consecrate yourself. I have a friend who had a neighbor at whom he only waived and smiled for so many years up until they graduated from college and had their first dinner date. The first date was followed by another and another until one day the guy proposed a marriage in her office one day. They did marry.
Its always nice to reach out and make some friends. Who knows, happy endings are just right outside your house.