Since I was young, I've known that my siblings and I always minded our own business, maybe because of the home we grew up in - a polygamous family where we lived with my step-mums and some of my father's relatives. My mom would always provide everything her children needed at home, even before it finished, so we didn't have opportunities to ask them for things. We had our own rooms and cooked separately, and my mom always made us mind our own business. But children will be children, and there were times we would go to each other's rooms and play or watch movies when my mom wasn't home.
That's what we grew up with. Even when I went to school, if I was in my room for days, no one would know. One thing about me is that I always have a good relationship with my neighbors wherever I live. You may not see me in their rooms playing, but they are always in my room when they know I'm home. I always greet my neighbors and just have a little talk whenever I'm doing something outside. I'm a neighbor everyone would love to have, because I don't disturb anyone, I won't invade your privacy, I won't go to their rooms, but when we see each other, I am friendly to them.
Now that I'm living alone, I wake up, go out, and sweep the outside of my flat. I'll greet anyone I meet outside, and when I'm back inside, I may not come out till the next day. When we were young, if my mom was going out, she would prepare everything ready for us - food and snacks we would eat before she came back - without anyone's supervision. Maybe that's because we grew up with family, not really neighbors. But now, with my neighbors, we have a cordial greeting relationship, which is the only relationship I can say we have now.
Except for some girls who always enter my room, they are the only people I can trust with my child if I have one now. For others, I haven't seen any bad attitude from them, but I couldn't leave my child with them because no one is to be trusted. I do leave my keys for those girls, so I can trust them in case of an emergency. There was a time I left my keys for them, and they helped me remove my clothes from the dryer and put them inside. It's not that I trust them too much, but at least we talk more than others, and they've come to my room several times.
I am the kind of neighbor I would love to have because, like I said, I don't disturb anyone with too much talk or loud music. When I see any of my neighbors' clothes fall from the dryer, I always help them with it. I am the kind of neighbor my neighbors can trust in case of an emergency. I remember one time a neighbor traveled and forgot to lock his generator inside; I had already helped him lock it inside before he even called the caretaker to help him with it. When the caretaker came, he told him I had helped him lock it inside. When the neighbor came back, he thanked me. So, I am a kind of neighbor I would love to have. I love neighbors who don't invade your privacy and respect boundaries, and that's me.