Dear Noisy Neighbor

To anyone who has ever had to endure discomfort in a apartment you had to call a home. Noisy neighbors above or below.

Living under the roof of someone careless. I find myself boxed in an apartment dealing with everything that I should not in a home with four walls. The audacity of them to walk all over as if they were not conscious that the noise bounces downward in my living space. I understand we all share these walls but at the cost of having to deal with your life. I am at a loss, it’s devastating to have to deal with your everyday moves, I sit down and you start stomping. I flush the toilet and you start stomping. I work 8 hours sitting in the same spot and such a punishment you burden me with, to hear you prancing above. I realize you are above and no one makes a disturbance to you but yourself. So, I ask myself how much I can impose considering that I for the remaining 16 hours in the day, I try to sleep a good 8. Even sleeping is a privilege in my space. I lay down and you choose to walk heavily in the last space I would not dare want to defy. The truth of the matter is that no matter what I write or say. You will not change. You act entitled in your apartment above me, thanks. You should know, I am a person just like you, who lives, breathes and eats. Oh dearest neighbor, thank you for having to force me to look for another place to call a temporary home.  Just remember the space you call currently home is in fact not yours. I admit there are times when I get upset and turn the music up hoping it causes some annoyance to you, but truly I believe it does not even scratch the surface of the sadness you place in me.  I surely hope that in another place and another time, you are not burdened with the nuisance I had to deal with in this apartment.