We watch them grow up or grow old, just like our own years have passed. We participate in their weddings, funerals, joys, sorrows and sorrows, just like our own fate in our own life. Because of the neighbors, with these simple and beautiful relationships, we can realize the fullness and happiness in the daily necessities and the bland warmth in the dim lights. Every good neighbor who happened to meet me in the world made me deeply remember and grateful. Now that I think about it, it seems that I can still hear the aunt's hearty laughter and think of the younger brother's mischief, the uncle's enthusiasm and easygoing, and the grandmother's thoughtfulness and generosity.
I've been wandering around with my parents since I was a child, so I rarely live in a certain place for more than a few years. But even so, I have met countless warm and kind neighbors in this different environmental change. My aunt, whose parents went out late and took care of me spontaneously, had been accompanied and comforted by her for countless late nights, and even the unknown fears became insignificant. When she wakes me up from my sleepy eyes and takes me to my parents, I can always hear her gentle smile and say how good and sensible I am today. There is an uncle who enthusiastically takes my parents to work every day after knowing that my car broke down. In my parents' eyes full of apologies and gratitude, he laughed heartily and waved his hand and said, "We are all neighbors, don't be strangers!" Not to mention there are many people who occasionally send things or say hello when they meet. Many warm-hearted or gentle people are deeply or shallowly imprinted in my memory, and they also slowly change our home so that we can get closer and closer to them every time we go to a new environment. Of course, it is inevitable to leave, and it has long been a fixed procedure for us to say goodbye to each other. Helpless and powerless.
However, with the growth of age, our family has gradually stabilized, and we are no longer running around. After living in the regular residential areas and tall apartment buildings in the city, we meet less and less people who used to be lively and kind. Indifference and alienation seem to be the characteristics of this place. Even sometimes when I meet in the elevator, I feel embarrassed and numb, and my hands and feet are constrained. I often wonder if this is the performance of the city's growing development? Or should modern people in the city be like this, otherwise it is not a label of fashion independence? Maybe neither, but I don't have the answer.
So I miss more than once the days when the faucets were crowded together and had to fetch water together, the past when the garbage was put at the door and carried each other, and the ordinary people whose names were inextricably linked. They all have the same name-neighbors. Then when I turned into the corridor, I found a strange face and turned a blind eye to each other silently.
people are a kind of group animals. No matter how the times develop, people's expectations and demands for groups in their hearts will not change. Once upon a time, we went from a neighborhood where chickens and dogs heard each other's voices to strangers who met without saying hello. With the rise of reinforced concrete in cities, the pace of people's work and life is accelerating, and the scene of warm mutual assistance between neighbors has long been a scarce thing. The strong "neighborhood affection" is gradually fading because of the barrier of various security doors. Even door to door, it is mostly a cat's eye to see neighbors, not to mention "neighbors help each other" and "neighbors like each other".
As an important part of urban civilization, neighborhood relationship brings a signal of harmonious development of the city. I hope to have less disputes, more tolerance, less indifference, more sincerity, less alienation and more closeness. Then we may feel that the city is developing well and fill the helpless and lonely hole in our heart.
Sticking to the slogan "Watch in the Collar", I was silent in the wind, just like a satirical drama performed silently. But I hope that next time, it can fly with the wind, so that everyone passing by can smile after seeing it, and then turn around and say, "Hi, I live on the third floor, and you?"