What you sow, you will reap

One day I was coming home from the park,when one of the neighbor ladies came out of one of the houses near ours. I didn't know her but just to be polite I said hello. She said hi back and then she asked me if I had just moved in. I thought that it was kind of a weird question because I pass her house almost every day going to the park. I said no, that I had been living here for almost three years. Then she asked me if we liked our neighbors, and I said yes. She kind of looked surprised and she said that she didn't like her neighbors. I didn't say anything, and I kept on going. When I got home I was talking to my mom about what the lady had said, when my Mom found out what house they lived in, she said that they had had trouble with their neighbors. My mom told me about a Turkish proverb that goes; "What you sow, you will reap"
This also reminded me of a song by casting crowns that's called 'Jesus friend of sinners'. One of the lines in the song says "Open our eyes to the world at the end of our pointing fingers." That's exactly what the lady was doing. She wasn't being a good neighbor, and yet she expected everyone else to be good neighbors. I think that another of the problems was that she didn't realize what she was doing. Sometimes we do the same thing, without realizing it. That's why we always need to be be aware of what we're saying and doing. Not just with our neighbors, but with our family and friends as well.