.megankirb's Inkling celebrates the absolute romance of living by yourself.
When I moved into my first studio apartment in 2017, I got obsessed with the 1995 Jewel single “You Were Meant For Me.” In the song, Jewel has recently split with her lover and moved into her own apartment. She’s heartbroken, but she also digs having her own spot. She fries eggs and reads the paper and picks her wet towels up off the floor. I loved the details that she included in honoring the coziness of domestic ritual. Her song illustrated the comfort of being responsible only for oneself.
I’m an extrovert. I get supercharged by a street fest, a comics convention, a crowded kitchen at a house party. Through most of my twenties, I bounced around town like Chicago was a pinball machine and I was the ball. I lived with my college roommate, and we filled the empty hours with tiki drinks andThen my roomie moved across the country, and I could not bear the thought of learning to cohabitate with someone else. So I found my own spot. Some parts of studio living immediately appealed to me.
Then the pandemic hit. Being the sole name on a lease came with an extra level of isolation. During certain stretches of the last two years, I have reverted to my most feral self. Unibrow untended, hair tangled and frizzy, sweatpants so filthy they could be studied in a lab. But I found that even in these moments of primal devolution, I liked the strange animal of myself, this little Neanderthal hunched over the fridge, eating Hormel chili straight out of the can at 11 PM.
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