Nearby foreclosures depress home prices, says a recent Harvard Daily Stat.
The same applies to our lives too.
Nearby corruption
Nearby depression
Nearby violence
Nearby goodness
Nearby happiness
Nearby greatness
There are an uncommon few who rise above their surroundings and create a good life for themselves – or bad lives. But for the rest, our surroundings affect our behaviour more than we’d care to think.
The stat goes on to say – “The presence of a foreclosed property within a distance of 250 feet depresses a home’s price by about 1%. The effect is cumulative, with multiple nearby foreclosures depressing the value of other properties by several percentage points.”
One violent person may not turn the others violent. But a family of them can. A village of them most certainly can. A country of them, well, we’ve seen it with WW II.
“A distance of 500 feet is required for a home to be unaffected by a foreclosure.”
If you are the uncommon kind who can remain unaffected, by all means, live where you please. But, if there’s the least inkling that it is affecting you, stay the metaphorical 500 feet away.
To know whether you are where you want to be, think of what you want to live your life by. If your real life doesn’t match with that, remove yourself from the 500 feet circle.
Since you can’t move yourself physically out of where you are, how can you stay away?
By watching your every thought and every act.
And making the tiny correction each time you deviate.
Poetry in Life 
The best example of what the above passage tries to point is “Driving”.
I have many a times observed this on roads, if a vehicle from behind is constantly blowing horns and storms ahead of another one. The latter also picks up this momentum and starts speeding up without necessary reasons.
Everything in a society is contagious: from Smiles to Arrogance!!
On the whole, an impact post once again!
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