21 little joys of living alone

I think your real character emerges when you are alone, when nobody is watching, when the mask rests on the table and you are only you, in your pure untainted form. In the last one and a half years that I have lived alone, I have found out a lot of things about life and myself. I have never been a very social person, so living alone was not particularly a difficult decision. It was something I longed for, and was happy to finally be able to afford it.

Simple joys of living alone. . 

1. There is nothing more calming than to come back to a clean house, a clean bed with pillows and cushions wagging their tails, calling out to you.

2. ‘Relief’ is too small a word for the feeling you get when you know that there is food in the kitchen, and you have all the time in the world to stay stuck to your laptop, and get up only to heat your meal in the microwave.

3. There is something absolutely liberating about playing loud music in the house and singing along side tunelessly. No worries about music on loop to bother anyone.

4. Long showers before getting into the bed with latest season of Breaking Bad.

5. Roaming around skimpily.

6. Calling friends over and planning sleepovers. Cooking for others.

7. What do you want to be today? A butterfly or a couch potato?

8. Feeling all grown-up, paying the bills and getting plumbing done.

9. Going to sleep at 5:00 am and waking up at 1:00pm.

10. Never having to latch the bathroom door.

11. You never walk, you only swagger.

12. I don’t understand this one but- the surprised look on people’s face when they enter my house and see that I live alone, run a ‘household’ all by myself.

13. Finding and nailing the right balance of milk, sugar and coffee in my mug.

14. Perfecting the temperature of milk to go with crunchy muesli, so it is just enough crunchy and just enough soft for my liking.

15. Learning how to cook, eating burnt food, and going gaga when the food turns out to be finger-licking-good.

16. Knowing exactly what goes where and finding it there, coz nobody else is around to mess it up.

17. Having control over the speed of the fan.

18. Passing out. Nothing like dropping dead wherever, however you want.

19. All the plug points are MINE.

20. Sob your heart out while watching an embarrassingly emotional movie.

21. To sprawl across the queen size bed like a continent.

One thing I absolutely hate about having roommates is small talk. I loathe detest abhor small talk like nothing else in my life. Oh and the fact that I don’t have to ‘accompany’ people to things where they don’t want to go alone. What makes you think I want to be subjected to the nonsense that you’d rather not do alone!

P.S: After reading the post, it is easy to conclude two things- I am anti social and I am a foodie. Number three, I also have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.