![]() We rarely see each other outside the business world. We have dinners once in a while and we know every Saturday morning Ed will knock on the door and spend half an hour updating us with the latest gossip news from the work:Ĭool people I work with! We work together interact 6 to 8 hours a day.ĭiscuss our business, go to happy hours sometimes and end up talking mostly about the work that we do, it’s what we have in common. They became our great friends, people we can count on when one of my kids are sick or when we travel and need someone to feed our fish. Luckily though I have this neighbor that instead of minding his own business looks after my family and me.įrom day one, when we arrived at this house Ed and his wife were interested in our story, where we came from, what we do, and if we play music or like to ride bikes. They just mind their own business and so do I. Some don’t even know my name after five years living here and I guess I don’t know theirs either. I see their cars and toys inside the over filled garages that give me an idea of their hobbies but that’s about it. I don’t know what they do for work, or fun. There’s very little interaction with my neighbors, they say “Hello, Good morning! How are you?” But that’s about it! ![]() Let’s take a look at what I come my neighborhood: People would go to stores in their pajamas, eat fast food all day, wake up really early to work out in empty gyms, no lines to bench press! This is awesome!!!īut now, 17 something years have passed and I wonder if minding my own business is so great or am I becoming a lonely island where no one can come in, and the rules and norms I created are just pushing people away. Nobody cares what I’m doing, eating, wearing or not wearing! Within the first few weeks I learned the expression: “mind your own business!”Īnd I thought “that’s the best thing in the world.” Then I moved to California almost two decades ago. Opinions, suggestions, do this, or do that! From “eat more” to “be strong” to “stop dating these crazy women”. My “Nona” (grandma) always pulled me aside and told me what I was supposed to do. Coming from an Italian-Brazilian family I’m used to getting involved in everybody’s business as well as people getting into my things all the time.
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