Neighbourly Relationship: More Than Just People Next Door (They Might Save Your Day!)

Is it really of great advantage to have a good relationship with your neighbour

Can you imagine coming back home from a stressful day, too tired to do anything, and getting a surprise hot meal from your neighbour?

Have you thought about how much you interact with people around you. I mean the person you have next door, maybe the next house or few houses away. Are you the type that just prefers to maintain your business and rarely talks about having a tiny form of conversation with your neighbour aside friendly greetings? Do you know there is something called Neighbourly relations?

This is actually having a form of relationship with these types of people listed earlier, even with the people living across the streets. In a way, they are your neighbours—maybe street neighbours, I guess. Lol!

Have you really thought about your relationship with them, especially the people next door or at the next compound? This is really important, as there are quite a lot of benefit having a relationship with your neighbour. Absolutely, I do not mean a love relationship 😅.

There are a lot of benefits to this as said earlier, and one of them is Security. If you have at least a friendship relationship, it does not have to be a close friendship relationship. Rest assured, you have someone on the lookout for your property, especially when you are not at home. There will be peace of mind knowing that if anything goes wrong, you have people around on the lookout for you who can call and text to inform you of what is going on.

And when I say inform you on what is going on, it does not have to be matters relating to security alone; even some other trivia matters about traffic or something else.

I can remember last week, when PHCN (Power holding company in Nigeria, which is popularly known as NEPA) came around to disconnect my apartment from power. I was able to get informed by my neighbour, who called me to let me know the situation on the ground. I was updated about this information, which I would not have known until I got home

The most important benefit of this neighbourly friendshipness is food. There is nothing that beats this and I have been a beneficiary of it countless times. As a proud foodie, no benefit beats this 😅😂.

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Let me gist you on a recent event, although it happens very well.

Today was a very busy day for me. I was out all day trying to get something and put it in place in my apartment, which I will discuss later on in my post after I am done. My neighbour noticed that I had not been home since morning and asked me to confirm if I was. I confirmed that I have had a busy day and would also be going out again to get one or two things. Then she asked me if I had been able to eat anything all through. I honestly said no, I haven't, and she confirmed that it was the same as her too that she just wants to even get something to eat.

She asked me what I planned on eating, and I said I didn't know yet; maybe until I got back, I would have to start thinking and looking for what I would eat. We ended the conversation, I went out, and when I came back later that night, I decided to get myself moimoi, which is made from beans.

That was how I got back; she noticed that I had gotten back and then called me out and gave me a plate of food 🥺🥺🥺. I was so touched and happy (like so happy). I went back in and took out one of the moimoi I had gotten and gave it to her. She deserved that too.

These are the pictures of the plate of food I received

Kindly ignore my hairy legs in the pictures 😅

If you don't know moimoi, it is what I removed from the green leaf and placed on the plate of rice. I must confess, the food tasted really good. I have not eaten something this good in a long time. It even tasted better than where they sell a similar type of food like this in my location. I ate so much that I was filled and started feeling sleepy after I was done. I was blessed with the meal.