Unnatural Disaster

A natural disaster results in unnatural living. 

Naturally, the “Jerseyan” thrives inside his spinning world, rotating from job to car to computer, never encountering the face of the spinning planet next door. But what is the need? The Jerseyan is sufficient without community. Neighborhoods are full of individuals who ignore the sight of Mr. Jones taking out his trash and Susie Smith’s hello kitty backpack walking home from school at 3:05. The Neighbor, in fact, does not exist until his needs pry his unfriendly rear end out of his three story house.

Neighborhood, therefore, contradicts the very lifestyle of the Jerseyan. We live in “Individualhood”: A self absorbed group of independently focused people. Jersey then is a compilation of self sufficient “individualhoods”. We don’t consider having the Lyttle family over for coffee and dessert, to babysit Mrs. Kormack’s 3 year old torment would require copious amounts of alcohol. But after I mix the dry ingredients for my chocolate chip cookies and find I’m short one egg, it takes about three quick seconds for me to ring Mrs. Lollie’s doorbell. In fact, the swift amount of time it takes to cross the street proves all I need to forget Lollie’s kindness and return to my bustling kitchen. With achieving my own goals at the center of my spinning world, I can only hope that the wave across the street is enough to lend me two cups of sugar when I run short next apple pie.

Community, the ingredient lost on Jersey citizens in the recipe for social prosperity becomes unanimously potent in the face of disaster. The Neighbor does not exist without need, and the oil of need surfaces to the top of disaster’s flood. 

Naturally, we bake, compute, drive, and work independently, with our own agendas and priorities governing every move we make. Naturally we dwell in tragedy of isolation. Our remote lifestyle is our self imposed natural disaster; the flood of narcissism that tears down the walls of friendship, ruins the possession of joy and robs the home of social treasures, leaving loneliness to weep beside his destructed dwelling. 

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