On living and doing things alone

I live alone for most of the time. It was daunting at first, but I adapted to it and found that it can be extremely fulfilling. It was a conscious choice that I made. It was getting too tiring to give in to everyone, everywhere. I needed space that was purely my own, no one else's. Selfish maybe, but life is short and that's all that I really have.

So yeah, it gets lonely sometimes. But comparing that to the many benefits that you have from living alone, might get you thinking that loneliness is merely a state of mind. Something that you can switch off and put aside. 

From living alone, you have the ultimate freedom to do what ever you want. Whatever you want. No one is there, so no one will say anything. 

You can watch television naked, spill junk food all over the place, do the macarena, wash the dishes next week, bring back pets, fart excessively, watch porn, cry your hearts out, eat weird leftover food, roll all over the floor, watch meaningless movies on repeat..etc infinity. The power is in your hands.

Loneliness isn't limited to people who live alone, loneliness is a perception of isolation. If I am able to change my perception, I am able to live alone happily.

In this world where we are regulated constantly, where what we wear, eat, dance to and even what we think about is being monitored by an ever growing sensitive society, freedom to do whatever one wants is an expensive luxury. Of course, I am not the only to realise this. There have been an increase of studio apartments in Kuala Lumpur that offers single people better options to live alone. In the US, the proportion of Americans who live alone has grown steadily since the 1920s, increasing from roughly 5 percent then to 27 percent in 2013, according to the latest Current Population Survey.  

So it seems that living alone is a choice that many is taking nowadays, where people get to have their own mini me parties everyday. 

I don't know, I don't really enjoy being alone actually. But to continuously try and fail living with someone else, where in this society, living together is guarded with so many social walls, makes it seem unworthy of even putting an effort.