On Loving Your Neighbors: Which Ones Should You Really Love

To determine that a thorough study needs to be done.

The Different Types of Neighbors:

1- The Wannabe Singers: These are the ones, who not being able to afford much, turn their bathrooms into singing studios.  What’s more harrowing is that almost 99% of them happen to be tone-deaf. Listening to them not only pains your ears but shatters your soul as well.

 

 

 

 

 

2- The Quite Ones:

These neighbors on the other hand are the exact opposite of the wannabe singers. They are so quiet, that they constantly keep you worried and questioning if they are alive or not. Moreover, they speak so quietly that after every visit to their house, you decide to do two things:

• Either, visit a doctor to have your hearing checked.
• Or you vow to take a loudspeaker with you the next time you visit.

 

3- The Loud Ones: These are the ones that keep you thinking and praying when they’ll finally leave the neighborhood. You wake up in the morning and feel the earth-shaking and you jump out of bed screaming, earthquake at the top of your lungs, only to find out later that your neighbors were busy mowing the lawn at 3 o’clock in the morning.

4- The Nosy Ones: These neighbors have a love for bungee jumping behind your wall and sometimes their pets join in on the fun.

They are keen on knowing every little detail of things you buy during your shopping spree. They have endless questions of where, when, and why did you buy what you bought? The manufacturing and the expiry date, and out of all the colors why did you buy the rug in the color blue? 

5- The Borrowers: These are the ones who love to borrow every single thing from you, whether it be a cube of ice, your hairbrush, a pinch of salt, and sometimes your bathroom as well. You can consider them distant family members living close by ;P

6- The “Want to Make this World a Global Village” Neighbors: They watch every program on TV, national and international, with the volume so loud that after they have finished watching TV you feel like you have already traveled around the world in less than one day.

7- The Interrogators: These are the dangerous types who aren’t easily avoided ( They mostly include grandmothers), You have to be extremely clever to avoid them. Possibly, “THE BEST THING TO DO WHENEVER YOU SEE THEM IS TO………..RUN! “

8) The Busy Ones: This group mostly consists of working moms with four or five kids who don’t consider you anything but a nanny.  A nanny who doesn’t even need to be paid for her services.  These busy mothers randomly  call to tell you that in five minutes they’ll be leaving their  angelic kids (ACCORDING TO THEM NOT YOU!) with  devilish grins at your doorstep, giving you five minutes to:

• Save What You Can: Laptops, cell phones, glass furniture, and your poor cat so that you can lock them in the safety vault (Your room). Once the minions enter your house, the apt most expression that I would use here is, let the world war begin 😛

9)The Cautious ones: They think of you as a spy, so that whenever you ask them something they go like, AHHHH………..Yes…………..Uhmmmm ……….. this was given by ………………. Ahhhhh ……….. one of my friends…..Uhmmmm ……………….I can’t remember her name.

This is what I’m doing to them in my mind 😛

And when you go back home and your mom asks you where you were? You go ahhhhhhhhh………….. I was ………….uhmmmmm………..next door.

10- The Talkative Ones: Whenever you come back after meeting them you feel like you’re coming back after attending a four-hour seminar on why washing machines whirr.

And last but not least,

11- THE COMPETITIVE ONES: They are your fiercest competitors.

EXAMPLE 1:

Even if they haven’t mown their gardens in two years the minute you start mowing your lawn they’ll do the same, making the residents of their jungle  (GARDEN) a lioness and her four cubs, rabbits and zebras migrate to their natural habitat, the real jungle.

Please don’t make us leave 😛

Example 2: If you buy a car they’ll buy a truck and if you buy a truck they’ll start saving for an airplane.

After this thorough study, the answer to “Which Neighbors Should You Love” is: You should “LOVE ALL OF THEM”  despite their shortcomings, because no one is perfect. Not even you.

To make the loud, nosy, quiet, interrogators, and borrower neighbors your dearest friends, try some of these things:

1- If your neighbors are listening to music on full volume and you feel like Justin Bieber is standing right next to singing, just ring their bell and politely ask them if they could call the singer back ( turn down the volume a little ) 😉

2- If you want your neighbors to be good to you be good to them first. For instance whenever you cook something nice send a little bit over to your neighbors. 

3- Start giving money to charities so that your competitive neighbors will give more than you did. This way the poor will get help and your neighbors will get their inner satisfaction 😉

4- Celebrate with them in the time of their happiness and comfort them when they are sad and devastated.  Because you would like to have someone to share your happiness and sorrow with right?

5- If your neighbors are poor and borrow from you even though you may not like it just help them for the sake of GOD. GOD loves those who help others.  And even if your neighbors don’t repay you HE  definitely will.

Just don’t say it like this 😛

6- Keep your neighbor’s kids busy when they come over 🙂

But if they still opt for world war you are allowed to do this 😉

Just think of doing good to your neighbors as creating a chain reaction of kindness and peace. The peace in each neighborhood will inevitably lead to peace in the country, peace in countries will lead to peace in the whole world making this world a better place to live in 🙂