13 Harsh Truths You Learn When You Live Alone

By Hugh Firth /

4. Making Plans

It€™s about this point in the night when you make plans to salvage your week off. Tomorrow you definitely will get up at 7am and go for a run. Then you€™ll read that George Orwell novel. Maybe you€™ll even head into town and catch a play. Theatre, it€™s the life-blood of the soul. Again, when you make these plans with other people you generally stick to them because you€™re doing it together. The 7am run? Hey, I€™ll race you! Reading that novel? Hey, I€™ll read mine in the same room and we€™ll silently smirk at each other for being so bloody clever. Catching that play? Hell, why don€™t we go all out and catch a four hour opera? Making these plans by yourself though means you€™ll always let yourself down. The 7am run? Well, if you watch the trailer for €˜Chariots of Fire€™ on YouTube, that counts right? The book? Well, if you put it on your Amazon wish-list, that€™s pretty much the same thing, yeah? The play? Well, is there a film version I can fall asleep to? When you live with other people, you can achieve things you never thought possible. When you live by yourself, you€™re your own worst enemy.