Living alone is way better than having a roommate

College is a time for meeting people. It is the first time most of us have roommates. For four years, from the dorm rooms to apartments, most college kids always have at least one roommate.

I don’t. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I live alone and I absolutely love it. I know that most college kids either can’t afford to live alone or they just don’t want to be by themselves. And I’ve been incredibly blessed to have the means to live on my own. Now that I have been by myself for a little while, I can’t imagine having a roommate anymore.

Don’t get me wrong, sometimes having a roommate is great. You have a constant companion and someone there when you come home every day. But living alone is 100 times better than having a roommate for many reasons.

You become your own best friend

Yes, having an actual person to talk to is great, but I love talking to myself. I will have full on conversations with myself during which I actually answer myself. I know I sound like a crazy person and I’m okay with that. You know why? Because I never talk back to myself and I always tell myself what I want to hear. I’m the best friend I could ever ask for.

You don’t have to deal with anyone else’s mess

The dirty dishes in the sink are mine. If I don’t have any clean glasses, it’s my own fault. There’s a laundry basket in the middle of the living room? I put it there. I don’t have to wonder what that sticky stuff on the table is, because I already know.

If you do something stupid, no one ever finds out

This has happened many times – I trip over my cat and spill coffee all over me. I roll off my bed when I’m taking a nap. I put regular soap in the dishwasher instead of the pods and create a ginormous mess. But no one can make fun of me because there aren’t any witnesses.

You always know who’s in my apartment

I don’t come home to random people sleeping on my couch. I don’t wake up in the middle of the night to strange drunk people coming through my front door with my roommates. If anyone is at my place, I know who they are because I’m the one that invited them.

You can be as loud as you want

If I want to sing loudly and very, very off key in the shower, no one judges me. Well, maybe my neighbors probably do, but who cares what they think? I can play my music loudly and all throughout the night without anyone saying “ew, you play too much Rihanna”. No I don’t, go away.

You get to make the apartment your own

It’s totally cool having roommates and having all of your personal styles mix together, but being able to decorate the way I want to is my favorite part of living alone. As a makeup addict, I have an insane amount of makeup. So much so that it took over my bedroom. So, since I live alone and I don’t really need common areas, I made my dining area a beauty room. It would be completely selfish of me to that if I had roomies.

I’m almost independent

Notice I didn’t say “completely independent”, because I know I’m far from it. But with certain things I am.  When something breaks or there’s a gross bug, I can’t lean on my roommates to help me out, I have to figure it out by myself. Like when I found a centipede in my room, I couldn’t call someone else to kill it. So after a brief temper tantrum, some hysterical crying, and thoughts of moving out and just letting the centipede have the apartment to itself, I killed it. All. By. Myself. And I felt super accomplished.

I loved living with my roommates because we were good friends and sometimes I do miss seeing them every night. But I’m better on my own. Give me an empty apartment to myself and my cat over a crowded apartment any day.