One doesn’t become truly independent unless they live alone. It is only then that you are completely responsible for your own life – in sickness and in health. It is significantly liberating – cooking your own meals, cleaning your surroundings, decorating your space just how you like it, taking care of yourself when you are sick, and addressing every big or small crisis that happens in your house from a leaking tap to a broken sofa. You are not answerable to anyone and you can just be.
Although liberating, living alone can come with its own set of challenges – the supreme of them all being loneliness. Somedays when you come back to an empty home, have no one else to wake up to or share your dinner with, it can get on your nerves. But just like everything else, living alone comes with its own ups and downsides.
People online on X have been talking about living alone after a woman named Gayatri shared how people who live alone fascinate her.
“I often wonder how it feels like cooking for just one, giving human names to your music playlists and finding fallback friends online who fill in the crevices of loneliness with empty or deep talks,” she wrote.
She went on to add, “Sleeping alternatively on each side of the bed on simultaneous days to keep the sheets warm. Have no one to share breakfast with and occasional someone to share dinner and a night cap with. Who does their bedsheets smell of, besides their own odour? Does the bathroom rack with one toothbrush and a toothpaste call each other companions? On their sick days, who kisses their burning eyes, with a promise of a better tomorrow?”
She asked people online how it feels to live alone. Have a look at her post here:
People who live alone, on their own fascinate me. I often wonder how it feels like cooking for just one, giving human names to your music playlists and finding fallback friends online who fill in the crevices of loneliness with empty or deep talks.
Sleeping alternatively on…
— Gee (@GayatriiM) March 31, 2024
There were many people online who responded to her post by sharing their own experiences of living alone. While some expressed that it is mandatory, especially for women, to live alone for some time in their lives just to know how independently they can live, others said that living alone can be very lonely for some.
Have a look at some of the responses here:
Highly recommend women to live alone if you can obviously afford to. You will be surprised at how much you can do on your own and all your fears of being not good enough will slowly but surely dissipate! Nobody can mess with you after you become this person. 😏 https://t.co/sK8QKxZwLx
— Sreya (@darthdevi) April 1, 2024
Living alone is one of the best things to happen to anyone who is stepping into adulthood. The level of self-awareness and self-sufficiency you could achieve will stay for a lifetime https://t.co/HSLXgNAgiz
— paradox (@detacheddandy) April 1, 2024
I have absolutely loved living alone. you get to understand yourself like you never will if you have always lived with people. plus it’s so liberating to be responsible for yourself, once you’ve gotten over some anxiety and fears. https://t.co/2xKPkK1NGE
— k (@krownnist) April 1, 2024
Living alone is liberating except when one is unwell or when one doesn't have a strong reason to live. As long as budding self-love isn't interfered with by the parents, all's well – a child at an impressionable age doesn't know enough to protect itself from hatred/doubt/guilt https://t.co/pePlJ9oGXW
— equa-nimmi-ty (@nimmypal) April 1, 2024
The silence of my apartment is accentuated by the soft hum of my PC's fans and the occasional wind blowing in. The hollowness of its tiny halls is the same thing I feel when I look in the mirror.
I know it's every corner. I know where everything is. For once, it isn't chaos. https://t.co/tWeUpfOcPD
— Definitely Not Sujay (@FullFatYoghurt) April 1, 2024
Absolutely loved living alone. Being responsible only for my well-being was so jarring, yet healing.
Highly recommend that everyone does this, especially women(and eldest daughters) https://t.co/ocd9YY0Nux— 🍉tapioca(tailor's version🪡🪡) (@TapiocaChip) April 1, 2024
I live alone. Its not at all depressing as stated in this tweet.
Living alone does not mean one is lonely. I meet my family, friends and relatives, I'm out on weekends for social visits and I have the privilege to come back and unwind by myself. https://t.co/0T1pIprIOx— I am Reema 👒 (@iamreeemaa) April 1, 2024
There are occasional waves of loneliness but it's not that depressing as well 😅. I can eat food alone at home or in restaurants. I sleep on whatever side I want. Answerable to no one n I genuinely enjoy my company. It's a good life once you should live before committing life log https://t.co/gikyvkiCvf
— Vichitra_ Naari (@Vichitra_Naari) April 1, 2024
I have lived for 2 years and it has its own sukoon. Yes taking our own responsibility.
Sometime is better to be alone than to be lonely in a house full of people. https://t.co/BdXm7DAkAZ— 'RAMU KAKA' Naam To Suna Hoga (@realmeramukaka) April 1, 2024
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