I’d like to explore the hypothesis that the way we do friends/relationships in sprawling, downtown suburbia is hard and unsustainable. Often our friends and acquaintances live miles away. If we lived in a community village or similar, social exchanges would be incidental encounters which do not have to come with expectations, previous discussion, prior arrangement or multiple mobile phone calls and texts.
The way we do things now, often with much forward planning and organisation, gives us time for expectation to develop and our minds to play around with anticipation and prospect. My daughter quotes: ‘expectation is the diving board to disappointment’. Hmmmmm, I wonder what do you think?
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