Thom Kofoed: Everyone knows everyone
I made a deal with myself recently.
I decided that I needed to start socialising more. It's not that I don't like people - I mean it is true that I don't like a lot of people(people who swear in front of their children, people who listen to music on their mobiles WITHOUT headphones, people who take their tops off in town. I'm serious folks, unless your T-shirt is on fire keep it on when you're buying a filofax in WHSmiths.) Mostly though, it's because I like television more.
Have you seen it lately? I saw a programme recently about a woman who's raising a fake baby, a fake baby that, may I add, have a heartbeat. You don't see that when you're eating dinner in the Old Town!
Anyway, turns out that you don't meet many people watching TV and I figured that I might meet somebody...who would like to watch TV with me.
No hang on, that's not the reason.
Over the last few months I have been accepting dinner invitations, trips for tea, I've been going for drinks and having actual conversations.
I did indeed visit the Beer Festival like I said (which was mind-blowingly good, everything I hoped it would be. Oh and sidebar-my Mum went to Proms in the Park last Thursday and said that it was so brilliant she's already planning a return visit. Good work event people.)
This leads me to a recent discovery I've made - turns out that everybody in Hastings knows everybody else.
I'm serious. Somehow or other every single person in this town is connected.
In this last week alone I have discovered that my boss and her sister have worked with my friend Esme's dad, that the same boss and her husband are friends with my friend Lisa's boyfriend's best friend and that that same friend is friends with my Godmother's ex sister-in-law's daughter.
I wasn't even looking for those connections; they just fell at my feet.
It got me thinking, what would happen if we actively looked for these connections? I figure that if the guy next door who revs his car all night realised that your Aunt was the woman who let him cut in front of her at the pharmacy because he was late picking his kid up from the school disco, he would maybe keep the noise down.
Listen up new lady mayor - please organise a day when all of Hastings and St Leonards stand side by side, one end of the town to the other and just talk, find out how they know each other.
How comforting to think that perhaps if we all were aware of our connections to each other we would be more considerate of one another as we went about our lives...TOGETHER.
Hastings isn't all that big. We come into contact with the same people every day, over and over.
It wouldn't hurt to be more considerate of these people because, chances are they know your cousins best friends next door neighbour twice removed.
EPIPHANY - perhaps I could do with being more tolerant of the plonkers who seem to have mislaid their t-shirts in town!
Profound. I should leave the house more often!
For more by Thom, visit www.thomatron.blogspot.com.
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