4 Reasons Living With A Roommate Is Tough

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Roommates! All of us have definitely lived with them in a room under the same roof at least once in our lifetime. You are lucky if you get a roommate with the same frequency as yours. Otherwise, it may not be a sweet experience. Roommates are actually awesome people and you like living with them. However, living with them sometimes can turn out to be a disaster. Here are the main four reasons you are having difficult times living with your beloved roommates.

1. You Do Not Have Privacy.
After spending whole day interacting with friends in university, you can finally go back to your room and recharge yourself in that small bubble of yours alone until you realize that you have a roommate. Forget about your personal space when you are sharing your room with someone else. It just no longer exists. 

2. You Cannot Set Your Own Sleeping And Waking Time.

You feel bad about going to bed when midnight falls as your roommates are still staying up either doing their assignments or revision. Being the kind-hearted ones, you will sleep with the lamps on if you ever live with the night owls because you yourself are aware that reading under the table lamp is so uncomfortable. While your sacrifice may do well for them, you are literally torturing yourself by sleeping under that eye-striking artificial lighting. Similarly, you have to be super quiet when you wake up early in the morning, fearing that they will wake up because of you.

3. You Are In An Awkward Position When They Bring Their Friends Over.

When your roommates bring over their friends to the room, you are in a pretty awkward position. Although you are close with your roommates, it does not indicate that you are friends with all their friends. You barely have any idea on how to handle the scene. You do not want to disturb their time together but at the same time, you do not want to stay isolated and being treated as a weirdo and an anti-social person. 

4. You Are Living With Someone Else.  

Accept the fact that you and your roommates are different people. All of you come from different backgrounds, raised in various environments and exposures. It is no doubt difficult to adapt to living with people who can be completely different than you. Nonetheless, it is worth the experience. You get to know new people and bond with them. Ultimately, they are the ones whom you spend most of your time with since you are living in the same place with them. You will have them to accompany you, be it when you are going out or even watching movies in the room. At the end of the day, having roommates is actually a pretty good experience after all.  

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