A few months ago a girl moved into my building– young, a teacher, seemingly normal and cool. Someone I would actually hang out with. We spoke in the lobby for a bit, exchanged apartment numbers, and said we’d see each other soon. I haven’t run into her since– until just now, in the elevator.
Girl: “Hey! How have you been?!”
Me: “Not much!”
And then our friendship ended.
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That sounds a lot like the time last summer when I thought a nice, young person was moving into the apartment next to me. Turns out I was wrong, very wrong. Instead, I have a constant slew of loud foreign workers, who work at some new factory in the middle of nowhere somewhere in my city. It was a grave disappointment. The neighbors on the other side who just moved in sound interesting, as I hear their conversations through the bathroom wall. Sometimes I want to join in on their conversations, but I’m sure that would make me look like a total creeper. Meeting new people is awkward and difficult. Making friends as an adult is not easy at all.
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Totally– as for joining your neighbors conversations…I was once singing “Wind Beneath My Wings” while in the bathroom getting ready for work. I sang “Did I ever tell you you’re my hero?” and the man who lives above me sang back “You’re everything, everything, I wish I could be.” Because he could hear me through the vents. Apparently.
Wonder what else he’s heard
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I wonder how often my neighbors hear me talking to my cat or even to myself.
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I know that feeling! Generally happens to me at work though – I meet some great person in a training seminar, we exchange business cards, and never speak again. I don’t think that’s how networking is supposed to work.
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Yes, happens all the time! I just wish I could at least master the part where someone asks you a simple question such as “How have you been?” and you give an answer that makes any kind of sense whatsoever.
But no. I’m not there yet.
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“How are you?”
“I had a potato for lunch. You?”
😀
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