An Unusual Encounter with My Neighbour
“Finally a time to lay back and relax for the weekends,” I exclaimed as band practice for that day had finally ended, I was soon going to enjoy myself. It’s a Friday, a normal school day and we had band practice in school till around 8pm. I headed for the bus stop nearest to my school and boarded the Bus 31. When I alighted from the bus stop right below my house, to my amazement, I was surprised to see my “introvert” neighbour loitering around the void deck. And I am dead serious about it; all my other neighbours believed that he is a person who closes all doors to the outside world. He never talks or mentions anything about himself. It’s just too unusual to see him loitering around our neighbourhood.
Even during festival like Lunar New Year and even Moon Cake Festival, he always fails to appear at block gathering and he has been labelled by us as an introvert. And when we meet him in the lift we will became very cold towards him like how he did to us. Most of the time, we would help our other neighbour press the lift button and hold the lift for them while we wait patiently for them, but when we see him approaching, we would hurriedly close the lift door and we would ignore him and when the reach our designated floor we would all heave a sigh of relieved that we did not encountered him.
But what was so unusual was not just because he has left his house in the middle of the night but was what that followed next. As I was about to run up to him and question him he saw an old lady walking past him. He, who is known as Mr Khoo , noticed that the old lady, in the middle of the night, was carrying a lot of plastic bags and many paper bags, he went up and offered her his help. The old lady refused at first but because Mr Khoo insisted, she gave in and he helped the old lady carry her groceries right to her house downstairs, of course I followed. After that happened I told him that he was very kind and helpful but why did he not interact like that with his other neighbours? He then explained that he is a detective and cannot reveal his information that easily to outsiders. He wanted to make friends but because we always misunderstand him and ignored him, he did not have the chance.
From this little incident, I learned that not many people are as simple as they look and we should never judge a book by its cover.
463 words (excluding the explanation)
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| Extrovert and Introvert |
Introvert = It means that he or she tends to concentrate on their own feelings and thoughts rather than on things corcerning the external world and other people
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| Afraid and don't want to talk to people |
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