You can never have enough...

[Oh_hunnihunni]

My neighbour came home last night. She went to Oz a month or so back to visit family, and it has been wonderful to have an empty unit nextdoor. No mysterious bangs and crashes, no loud voiced phone calls to overhear, no immediate appearances the moment I step outside. She is a perfectly nice woman, but does love to know what's going on in everyone else's units. Funny thing is I thought it was just me being my usual antisocial self until several others expressed the same thought at a wee gathering a few days ago. One of them summed it up by remarking she seems to have that little cloud following her around, the same one that features in the Winnie the Pooh stories. It was a funny thing to say, but summed things up perfectly. Some people just seem to put a dampener on things without trying, just as others seem to lift spirits without effort.

Ah well, it will be good discipline for us to exercise some kindness, albeit with a little inner muttering, lol. The joys of communal life...