What makes a good neighbor?

I’ve had many good neighbours in my life who have become friends, that make you feel safer when you’re alone indoors, secure in the knowledge that they will help if you’re in trouble. I try to be a good neighbour too. I love our current neighbours.
I’ve also had disinterested neighbours. When we left our last house several people came up, wished us well, and said that they would miss us. They must have been being polite as in 8 years we’d barely seen them. I nearly said so, but courtesy won.
It’s wonderful though when you do strike lucky and meet good people in a new area. Especially if you’re completely lost in an unfamiliar setting.
I wish
That as nations we could be good neighbours. That we could acknowledge the wrongs of the past, put our collective heads together, and work to make the present and future a safer, happier, place. Not at this stage of incarnation, sadly.
I wish that in the UK we could just get on with living on this tiny island, resolve the Northern Ireland situation in a way that leaves everyone feeling safe and happy, and focus on building a strong, thriving economy for all.
Sadly, we were doing well in the EU, but internal troublemakers decided to lead people astray with things many thought were lies and everyone now knows were lies, and we stopped being good neighbours.
I’m not proud of that. We all deserved better. The last nearly 80 years of peace have been wonderful. A peace achieved by everyone acknowledging the past, taking the lessons, and trying to do better. I respect the people who turned things around. All of them.
Inclusion
Whether you welcome new people to your neighbourhood, or put past wrongs to one side on the grounds that we can’t change them, but we can best respect them by doing better, living an inclusive life is far preferable to what too much of the world is experiencing right now.
Remember the innocents
My heart goes out to every innocent currently suffering due to the beliefs and actions of a few, wherever you are, whomever you are. I stand with only, and all innocent victims.
Deb xx