The community that is now filled with people who don’t know each other and don’t care to know each other, used to be one filled with block parties and neighborhood watch patrols. People would come sit on your porch and have a cup of coffee or a beer and chill. Santa Claus came every year on the local fire company’s biggest firetruck. Everyone knew everyone else, and stopping your car to chat with your neighbor was common. No one behind you would honk their horn to hurry you on your way.
Last week I witnessed a minivan with no tags drive around a tow truck into someone else’s front lawn to get past what must’ve been an annoying situation for the minivan. I couldn’t believe what I had seen. Couldn’t the guy have waited a few minutes, or turned around in my driveway and gone around the block? No. Too impatient. About 15 minutes later, he came back and did it again from the opposite direction. Yes, it was all a bit suspect, but without a license plate, I couldn’t call the police. See the other thing, back in the day, neighbors looked out for each other and would call the police or investigate a strange situation if they saw it. They would also look after each other’s houses and pets when one or the other went on vacation.
This doesn’t happen anymore.
I only know a few of the original people in my neighborhood, and the new ones are not from the back in the day mentality. Everyone is huddled inside of their homes, doing whatever. It’s the antithesis of community.
I’d be willing to bring back block parties and neighborhood watches, but the sad truth is one person doesn’t make a community – it takes a group of like-minded people to foster a sense of community.
The question is the answer and the answer is the question. And I don’t think the definition of community will ever be as understood as it was back in the day.
“It's Amy,” I said. 
shit goes down
and the smile becomes a frown
no guilt but pain
of moving into the next reality any ways
LikeLiked by 1 person
no eye to eye
and that is why
the middle finger
and flip phone will suffice
now aint that nice
how my world is flat
LikeLiked by 1 person
Nothing is the way it used to be when I was a kid. The world has become a cold isolated place for us all and it’s every man/woman for themselves. 😢
LikeLiked by 1 person
Seems that way, huh?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yeah so the way I combat it is to do the opposite. Let people in, in front of me. Pick up the person behind me’s bill in the takeout line. I’m never giving up on making the world better. ❤️
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes, holding the door open, offering older people your grocery card at the store, etc. ♥️
LikeLiked by 1 person
Exactly
LikeLiked by 1 person
It is very true Amy! No one looks out for one another now, the world has gone mad, crazy, and everyone is out for themselves. X
LikeLiked by 1 person
This is true a lot of the time. I hope we can get back to what it used to be like.
LikeLike