I recall when I was a child, during festive seasons one predominant habit in our village was that each neighbor will cook and share the food to all her neighbors, as kids we would eat and be filled from our neighbors house before returning home, our neighborhood was one of my best experiences growing up, like every child belongs to every family, you can literally walk into anyhome play eat sleep till our mom will come looking for us, life was fun sweet beautiful and easy....
during Xmas the best days ever the ritual was endless, it was indeed memorable growing up in a small community and feeling safe among your neighbors, life was different then than now, compared to whats going on in our societies...
But that was many years ago, I now miss the village life, were I could just walk into my neighbors house and drink a cup of water, how civilisation has so torn us apart, we now live in cubicles fenced round called homes, were everyone is seriously minding his or her business, were its just good morning and up they go no time for pleasantries or a minute of chitchat.
I was at an event last week and one of the speakers talked about rebuilding that simple communal life of the village in the city how we can have a village in the city, because looking at it squarely the city life is so busy with everyone minding their business once its down we get up and go, always on the move, rushing and no time to stop and exchange pleasantries anymore, you now see a lot of people falling easily into depression, committing suicide generally because no body truly cares anymore about each other or cares to know what someone else is going through per time.
gradually I grew into this lifestyle of the city, I rarely have time to talk, I could stay in a week and not see eye to eye with my neighbors, always busy , always preoccupied, always on the go, leave very early come back late, this is now my new found reality, that's why I look foreward to every Christmas so I can run back to the village and relive the village life experience once more, were I can feel free to roam about to my neighbors house and say hello, seat down for a meal and talk about life, were I don't have to knock at any gate or wonder what's at the other side of the walls, its just a simple open space with no walls no barriers no bars,...
indeed civilization has really torn us apart and now I can score my self zero when it comes to my relationship with my neighbors.........
what's yours, are you caught up in the city life like me?, how's your score with your neighbors, do you live in an estate fenced, do your kids have friends to go out and play with? or do you just live in cubicles fenced round like mine and just hello whenever you're driving out do well to let me know in the comment section or better still feel free to to take part in this week's @crossculture writing prompt hosted by @selfhelpfortrolls
This so true
Civilisation has now made us act like strangers even with our neighbours
We don't even have time to check if our neighbour is sound or not..or probably going through one problem or the other.
I think this city life is sometimes boring, everyone are just busy minding their business, Where's the moon play that unit us together..
long are the days, I wish we can bring that back, thanks for stopping by
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This is so true
back then it didn't matter what religion you practiced, you enjoyed all religions festivals
we ate Christmas food from our neighbors even if we were Muslims and gave out food on sallahs even if they were Christians
Now if I'm not travelling for festivals, I'll be doing it alone and my neighbor will also celebrate alone.