Pillow Talk: My First Roommate

After 24 years of living on planet earth, I have only cohabited with three human beings. Well, I am still living with one of them and she’s an amazeballs! Okay, before you start scratching me for this unruly slang I spewed (because I imagine you have very sharp claws), allow me to talk about my experiences. Disclaimer: I do acknowledge different viewpoints when it involves methods on how to effectively deal with a fellow human, so this post will take the entertainment path. If you somehow learned anything from these subsequent rants, that’s good. Your parents’ hard earned money is well spent.

If you were ever talking to me from years late 2007 till present, I can almost guarantee you that stories regarding my first roommate would surface somewhere or rather. Many of you took them lightly, laughing at her fails and emotional rides, but some of you, not so much.

Five things about ST and what I learned from her:

1) Emo Kid
- A nickname that she earned during her stay in Michigan. Emo refers to the multiple bouts of bipolar behaviors she exhibited that were mostly for self-centered reasons. We don’t mean that she wears gothic clothing or play hard metal music, but rather the unbearable emotional rollercoaster that took us, her friends by storm. It hits harder than the -30 Celsius snow blizzard because while we still remained unchanged after the natural disaster, the aftermath of an ST drama (back then) sent people packing and left relationships changed forever.

Lesson learned: People may not necessarily ever recover from their past history. Be patient, but also know when to back off, especially when things prove too much to handle.

2) Attention-fueled
- Knowing this can both harm and benefit; you will have to conduct yourself appropriately to ensure that nothing triggers the violent urge to press you for it. But I have to admit this, she met her goal of becoming the talk of town, at least it’s so within the Asian community then. Whether that reputation proved to be more damaging than helping, you may refer to point 3.   

Lesson learned: Reward for good behavior; withhold for bad behavior. Toleration for the most part is your best armor.