Danina Henley on Meeting Needs and Addressing Problems (clip)
Interviewed on April 17, 2010
Danina Henley: I’m still getting used to the diversity as far as feeling like I belong here. Growing up, I was around people that were just like me. It’s just different. We were all alike. We all had the same interests. How do I want to say it? Our way of life was just real similar. We shared a lot. We shared things. If I needed something, then I could go to my neighbor and ask for it and they usually would be willing to help me. And vice versa and they could come to me, and if they needed, I would give it to them. But here is just like, people speak when I pass by, but my neighbors are just different from me, so I don’t feel real comfortable as far as like approaching them and asking them for anything like help. I don’t know how they would receive me. They speak and I speak to them and that is about all. Just trying to find that connection that would allow me to have a relationship with my neighbor is something that I think that we all should have. We never know when we might truly need each other. We have all these walls up and not opening up to one another and it will make it harder for us to come to one another when we really, truly need each other. That’s how I feel.
