1) In the begging it’s exciting. You have all of this space which for the first time ever is only yours and you can do pretty much anything you want without judgment from anyone.

2) You have so much time alone that you don’t really know what to do with it. Will you run errands today? Go clothes shopping? Visit family? Go out with friends? Go to the gym? Or just stay home and watch some tv?

3) Cleaning the house and doing chores are much harder than ever before. You have no one to help you, so you have to do everything yourself and when the kitchen looks nice and clean, the bathroom just isn’t.

4) You need to get into a kind of “home routine”. No one is going to go grocery shopping for you, no one is going to wash your clothes when you have nothing left to wear and no one is going to cook for you. It doesn’t really matter if you don’t like doing any of those things you just have to get them done.

5) There are days in which you will feel very lonely. Your friends and family are busy and are not free to do thigs with you and so you start feeling lonely and a bit miserable. But there will also be days where you have so much to do that you cannot wait for some quiet time alone.

6) You need to plan things. Sometimes the monotony of living on your own becomes too much, so it’s always nice to have things to look forward too: a weekend away, a couple of days visiting friends abroad, some different events you have always wanted to go to but have never had the time for. Now is your chance to do things you light have left a pin in for a while.

7) You start valuing your opinion more. You have no one to make fast decisions for you, so you need to do them yourself. When you are living with other people you can always rely on someone else’s opinion, but when you are living on your own you have to make those fast decisions and you learn to live with the consequences of those decisions.

8) Being sick sucks. There is no one there to take care of you so all you can do is take medicine, try to cook and eat something and spend a lot of time in bed. Also, you need to remember to stock up on medicine when you aren’t sick so that when you are sick you don’t have to go to the pharmacy looking like a real life zombie.

9) You become super independent. You learn that you can do everything on your own, you don’t need to rely on anyone else to survive. You can handle doing all the little and big things that you might have not have to do before on your own.

10) You learn to face your fears. At the begging I would literally scream and run if I saw a spider or bug, but when you live on your own no one is going to get rid of it for you, so you toughen up and face your fear or learn to live with the nasty little thing because he isn’t going anywhere by himself.