Took This Long To Realize
By popciclecold
@popciclecold (35022)
United States
September 22, 2022 7:22pm CST
I have been in Mississippi for over 40 years, from Pasadena CA. I have had so much trouble here, because there, you could live next door to your neighbor, ten years and barely knee their name. Here everyone know your name and business, when trying to be honest to fix broken friendships, they lie, and you know they are lying. Just hit my mind, after all this time. Not saying I am going home, but at least I know now I am part of the problem too. What a great awakening. My life is going to change for the better.
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11 responses
@RasmaSandra (73201)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Sep 22
I certainly wish you all the best and I hope your life does change for the better.
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@popciclecold (35022)
• United States
23 Sep 22
I have to separate myself from them. They love to talk about people. But if I told them what I heard about them, they won't sleep for a week.
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@popciclecold (35022)
• United States
23 Sep 22
My conclusion. We are different, I will never understand them, nor they me. So it will always be static. None of us needs it.
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@CarolDM (203454)
• Nashville, Tennessee
23 Sep 22
@popciclecold Agreed. I consider static as drama and that is not welcome in my life for sure.
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@marguicha (215148)
• Chile
23 Sep 22
Where I live nobody knows their neighbors either. I blame it to being a very big city.
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@popciclecold (35022)
• United States
23 Sep 22
@marguicha The sad thing is they talk about me, and each other.
@marguicha (215148)
• Chile
23 Sep 22
@popciclecold I suppose that they have nothing else to talk about.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16517)
• China
23 Sep 22
Glad that it dawned on you ! There is a saying here: a relative far off is less help than a neighbour close by.
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@popciclecold (35022)
• United States
23 Sep 22
The way it was where I came from.
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@LadyDuck (457320)
• Switzerland
23 Sep 22
@popciclecold And this is how it should be everywhere.
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@FourWalls (61938)
• United States
23 Sep 22
I joked about the FBI knowing so much about me (because I have a clearance from my Navy days) that I need to ask them where’ I’m going on vacation next month. 
Southern women know more than that. 
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@peachpurple (13880)
• Malaysia
23 Sep 22
I never talk to my neighbors because i find them a bunch of gossipers.
@oahuwriter (26780)
• United States
23 Sep 22
Yes, not like Mr. Rogers neighborhood mist places. Especially now, with pandemic, almost over but lasting effects. You just don't know what people have on their shoulders.
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@Beestring (13271)
• Hong Kong
23 Sep 22
Where I live we don't know our neighbors. Just say hello if we meet in the lobby.
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