"In a sense, living alone represents the self let loose. In the absence of what Mr. Klinenberg calls “surveilling eyes,” the solo dweller is free to indulge his or her odder habits — what is sometimes referred to as Secret Single Behavior. Feel like standing naked in your kitchen at 2 a.m., eating peanut butter from the jar? Who’s to know?"
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So a couple of things about this. As the lone denizen of my domicile, I do probably enjoy more naked time and have closed my bathroom door a grand total of four times. However, I would not say that I am a breeding ground of eccentricity (my peanut butter is not eaten from the jar, thank you). Though it did occur to me not so long ago that the longer I allow this to go on, the harder it is going to be to accommodate someone else’s habits (you’re a morning person? you go to sleep with music on?? you don’t like coffee????). Beware of the solo habitat, people.
(Source: The New York Times)
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