If you are from my generation, between 19 and 25, one of your ultimates goals is living alone, or with a friend, but the point is not living with an authority figure. We all have dream with the liberty of doing whatever we want when we want it, living over our own rules, go to parties every day, make parties every day, eat whatever we want, where and when we want it and a bunch of stuff more. I will tell you a little bit of how is living alone, and my experience in this big step of my life.

Food

When you live with your parents, probably, one of the things that appear in your mind is that when you live alone you would be able to eat whatever you want like pizza, and burgers, and all kind of delicious fast food, and probably you will, i did it. But then you are going to start to get tired of that, probably you’re going to gain a little more of weigh and that is going to be your sign to stop.So you will need to learn how to cook, and that is not an easy task neither.It’s probable that you will get out of the house without eating anything just because you waked up late and you didn’t have time to cook anything, or because you open your fridge only for discover that you forgot to buy food and theres nothing in it, except for a beer and an old tomato that who knows how much have been there. Your diet will consist in eating over and over again the only three thing that you already know how to cook and then you will miss the healthy and variety of recipes that your mom use to cook for you, yes you will miss them even if you didn’t liked when you lived with her. And get prepared for the commentaries of your parents about your alimentation after you see them again…

Party

When you still live with your parents and you are still a teenager or in your early 20’s you have probably think “when i move out of my parents house i will go to party all nights, i will make parties in my place very often, I always will have friends in my place” and probably the first couple week will be like that, but then your are going to feel tired, and if you work or go to the Uni will be harder, your are going to notice funky smells in your house, and realize that it’s harder to keep it clean if it’s a lot of people around, so you’re going to calm down a little bit, you’re still going to want to party almost every weekend, but you are also will appreciate your time alone in your place and see it in order. Also you will appreciate the long days of just don’t doing anything, days of not taking even shower and watch all day and night movies while you are laid down in your bed.  

Cleaning

This one is probably the harder, because after the first week you are going to realize that the house doesn’t  clean itself !!  that actually someone must clean the kitchen, the bathroom, the clothes and it makes you really appreciate more what your parent used to do for you. My first time washing the laundry i had to call my mom and ask her for instructions of how to do it , and i had to send her pictures of every step of the process just to be sure that i was doing it well adding the fact that i also had to have a dictionary in my other hand for translating every mode of washing of the german washing machine. And beat the laziness for do some cleaning is one the hardest things to do so and in consequence you start to collect empty bottles and jars, you wash the towels and the bed sheets like.. every two months or until them start to smell weird, it might sound gross but i can can bet you that it happens… and is just because the laziness don’t let us do those kind of things.But don’t worry you will figure out.

Even knowing that living alone is not as we imagine, is still a great experience and i wouldn’t change any of those experiences, it’s part of growing up; and you learn a lot in that process and actually I have start to enjoy more of those things like learning how to cook new recipes, and to deal with such boring things as cleaning and now are a little bit less uffle for me. So i hope you have enjoyed this text and I wish you a lot of fun and luck in this new experience that you are going to start (if you haven’t yet).
LG, Sebastian