N for New Address
Change is inevitable. But we as humans always detest change, right from miniscule things like changing the brand of coffee we drink, or the paste we use to brush the teeth to the big ones like changing jobs or homes. My brother and I decided that we need to move our parents to a new home owing to my mom's increasing knee problems. My dad was hell bent on rejecting all our proposals of changing homes. He kept giving one or the other reason to avoid it. It took us close to 2 months with a lot of cajoling and convincing to make him agree for the move, and finally they shifted to the new home, much closer to my place (not that they were too far away earlier, but this new house is even more closer) last week, and have slowly started to get settled. All the while when I was engrossed in convincing my parents for the move, my neighbors were planning their move back to their own house which was demolished and reconstructed. I don't know how or why, but this neighbor was never just a...