ODE TO LIVING ALONE
Posted on 12/16/2014 4:54:36 PM PST by SeekAndFind
And ain't it a blessing. Imagine how nice it is to come home and find the place exactly as you left it, and the food item you were looking forward to having for supper that night is still in the fridge waiting for you. Having raised two sons on my own, I've come to cherish the solitude in my golden years.
this guy can only speak for himself... i lived alone for about 8 years and i did not need anyone to tell me to clean... and my life was not all about me... i had friends and family, and i often had shindigs in my home... dinners, parties, movie nights, Bible studies, reading groups... etc...
Here are what I see as issues:
1. Family’s are best for society, that means woman and wive and kids and pets, read diversity. Family are needed to have healthy kids and socially well behaved kids who become adults. Not millennial its all about me narcissist wimps.
2. If most cites like NY are 50% single parents and most are women they vote overwhelmingly for Democrats to provide big government supports, some think to replace the Man they really might need socially in their life.
3. Single people who dont grow up with and or live with other people tend not to be as good at social things like compromise and working as a team. If your put up with your wife’s makeup all over the bathroom sink or the mans mess while shaving you likely learn how to let the smaller things in life go and focus on the bigger issues.
4. I would throw in the Islamist are busy having lots of wives and kids and will out grow us in a few years. Don’t you really want 8 kid Christian family’s vs Islamist or a bunch of singles making the decisions in the world?
I think what he is saying is its ok for individuals to make these choices, however culturally for thousands of years the family unit was a major key to our social success as well rounded humans. This can be a threat to our own success. There are whole books written on how the family tames the man who otherwise in years past could easily become a hoard of barbarians at the doors of civilizations.
I plan to die with dignity at the bottom of the basement stairs just like God intended.
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Especially with six people in the house having help come in was prime.
I think there are people who do better in a congregant living situation. Apartments that open up into a common area, Shared housing, roommates.
those people like the companionship.
You’re making me jealous ;). Eight people in the house...I’m the maid.
LOL! I’ll see you there!
I always figured that when I died, they wouldn't find my body for weeks afterwards, and that my cats would feast on me in the meantime. My cats have been gone for almost 10 years, so it'll just be the maggots that dine on me now.
As the oldest of 9 I left home at 17 and didn’t marry until age 57.
Only had roommates in the early years, so most of 40 were alone.
What a transition married life has been!
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You and I are here, and you’re OK by me MHGinTN.
Amen to that. Between wives, I lived alone for 34 years. Being an anal neat freak my place was always immaculate. Been married now for three years and have to keep the anal side somewhat subdued. She’s not messy but not a neat nut like me.
“More of us are coming home to orderly little worlds that have not been disturbed by the presence of other people”
After many chaotic years I find that absolutely delightful.
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I’ve been alone since I left my parents’ home 43 years ago. I wouldn’t want it any other way.
On July 14, 2009, I woke to an empty house for the first time in over 20 years. My wife had taken the kids and moved out while I slept. Since then, besides the times my youngest daughter is with me via the joint custody arrangement, or some stretches when my oldest daughter stayed with me, I have lived alone.
It was a tough adjustment at first. It got easier as time went by and after a few years I found that I rather liked it.
Now, it’s the only way I want to live. I still have my daughter with me several days a week, but besides that I’m here alone and loving it.
It would be nice, I suppose, to have someone to come home to. But, I have my routine and need no one else to make me happy.
It’s pretty cool.
Living alone is wayyyyyyyy better for me....
I don’t live alone.
I live with a cat.
Yep. My cat doesn’t live alone either.
“He notes the contrast between life alone and a chaotic house without telling us what the downside of living alone is.’’’ Yeah, right. Irony is lost on this guy. Five sisters? Sheesh. I have four brothers and two sisters. I was the middle kid. Two older and four younger. “Chaotic’’? This guy doesn’t know the meaning of the word.
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