Neighbors

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Carol, I loved reading about your neighbors. I noticed that I was envious

that you have such a close connection to them. We live in an apartment complex

and I don't know any of my neighbors. I wouldn't know if they moved out...let

alone went away for a month. I see them often..and I don't connect with them.

Why?

**My apartment is never clean enough to have people over.

**Maybe they're religious and won't like that Giovanni and I aren't married

and living together.

**Being friends with them will become a chore.

**They'll pop over when I'm lounging around the apt. naked and I'll have to

rush to get dressed to answer the door.

**They'll find something out about me that they don't like.

**They won't want to be friends with us.

**They'll invite me over and their apt. will be too stinky.

Ooo..thoughts of the future.

So often my thoughts of the future stop me from doing things.

As I'm looking out the window...I see a young couple unpacking their moving

van..they're going to be my new neighbors! Hooray! I'm going to notice the

thoughts that seem to make me stop making friends with them. Who would I be

without them!? : )

I just found out that without a past, I'm not tied down anymore.

Maybe without a future, I'm not tied down and frozen, either. : )