What non-physical walls do we build to separate us from our nieghbours?

Answer 1

Emotional walls are a type of non-physical wall that we can build to seperate us from our neighbor.

An example of an emotional wall can be found in Robert Frosts poem "Mending Wall".

"Unseen or emotional walls are normally built in people's hearts, such as between a man and wife, between relatives and between former friends or between "them" and "Us", especially in politics. Unseen walls can be symbolic of relationships that now rests on mistrust. Each misinterpreted action or inaction adds another brick in the wall. Just as people have to take avoidance routes around physical walls, so many people also avoid meeting the people they have built the unseen walls against. Much energy and time is normally wasted up in maintaining these unseen walls. Emotional walls take away individual peace and denies those separated the real purpose of life on earth and the life hereafter."

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