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United States33802 Posts
December 10 2012 21:59 GMT
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I moved into an apartment on Saturday. It's my first time living alone, I've always lived with either my family at home or roommate(s) at college. And now I'm beginning to wonder why I did it. Sure, it's closer to work, cutting my hour and a half drive to about 20 minutes. Sure it's nice to have my own space, being able to conduct myself as I wish without anyone watching. Sure it's nice finally being able to put up my 47" TV and rock some video games. But what have I sacrificed?

I've always been close to my family. We care about each other, and it always seems alien to me when I see families that are distant, or parents that don't care about their kids, or siblings who don't talk. We eat together, we watch TV together, my sister (who now lives in Arizona) calls home every day. But part of me has always tried to convince myself that I don't deserve it, that I was born into a family that was too good for me.

I think it was that. I pushed so hard to move out and get things rolling so I could be away, because I thought it was the right thing to do. But now, I miss home. Even if I spent all day in my room, I knew I had people around that I could go talk to, that cared about me. Now, it's just alone. There's a nice apartment filled with nice things in a nice neighborhood, but I'd sitting there along. And that same part of me is telling me that it's right, that my being alone is how it should be.

I don't know what to think, really. I miss my family, but it's not all bad, is it? They should be proud of me, I should be proud of myself. I'm being responsible, paying for things and cleaning up after myself. I've lived alone for two whole days and nothing is on fire and I haven't drowned in garbage, that's a pretty big step forward for me. And I get to do what I feel like instead of doing things that are asked or things that will make my family stop nagging me, like I get to just sit down and play games for 3 hours if I want, or eat leftovers for every meal. And I don't have to hide my KPop, I get to blast it from the speakers. Though I feel like it might make meeting my neighbors kind of awkward.

Is this what adulthood is like? I kid around with people that are still in school, telling them that they don't know what it's like to be grown up, but I feel very scared and alone just living in a place by myself. I don't really know what I'm doing, just trying not to fail at whatever it is. I'm not sure if I've made a bad decision, a good one, or just one that was necessary.

I guess I just keep going forward.

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United States1159 Posts
December 10 2012 22:19 GMT
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that picture :O
i would reply to your blog but the picture has broken my brain
My religion is Starcraft
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