Flat Life

YES!!!!I am leading a "flat" life,......in   a flat!!!!.No sunlight,no ventilation,no air.......

Oh how I yearn  to  live in our old  independent house where there was a backyard,a courtyard,a kitchen garden and you could smile and say a hello to your friends who passed by...thus quenching your social appetite.Here,I can only lean on the balcony,and say a cold hello to the neighbour in the opposite flat.

Here------here  you live in a matchbox,with no outlet!!!Hubby warns me to close the doors as he leaves for office cautioning me against any intruder posing as a courier man..And there,...there I could spot anyone coming from a distance,our gate made a charecteristic creak .

There I laughed loud,my emotions bloomed........I sang and even danced to my hearts content.Here my conversation is in a whisper......any increase in the decibel raises hubby"s eyebrows.."hey, talk softly...neighbours are listening...They may think we are fighting........" .....Sulk sulk sulk........

My 2 year old daughter who loves to make kitchen utensils her toys,bangs int on the floor and smiles at the rattling sounds they make....I enjoy her smile and dont have the heart to stop her....Enters the husband.......and snatches the "toy" "" My God we have someone living downstairs......It will be like hitting them on their heads..."and my poor daughter(and I)both give in...sulking......

Nights give my husband a real embarassment when my daughter starts her crying spells......merely to catch my attention,so that i cuddle her sing to her and lull her to sleep......All this hullaballoo of mother and daughter gets on hubyy's nerves and he gives a warning"neighbours  neighbours...."

Oh my God why do we live in flats????Why not in independent houses?????what if they are small or deserted with no security staff or check posts?????