Four Little Words You Are Bound to Utter To Your M8s

"Let's move in together"

I have said this plenty of times in my lifetime. When I was younger, I used to tell my besties that one day we would move in together and have a bunch of fun adventures. The first person I probably said these words to was my childhood best friend. However, she like all other besties I have uttered these words to have fallen out of my life. These plans were never accomplished. And, I have yet to experience moving in with any of my mates. I still live with my parents. In retrospect: life is pretty good! I might not have the liberty to do whatever I want, whenever I want however, I have an abundance of food, a wonderful room with a full-sized bed, and three beautiful pets that love me!

 However, as a twenty year old, I have yet to learn how to take care of myself. I am extremely dependent on my parents and my grandmother, who lives with us. (A little sidetrack: My grandmother babies me and I kinda take advantage of it. She always makes me breakfast in the mornings. So I am extremely used to having fresh breakfast in the mornings. Every time she goes back to her hometown and leaves my brothers and me; we will not eat. We have gotten too used to having breakfast ready for us plus we are too lazy to cook ourselves something in the morning.)

I recently got offered a chance to move into a sweet apartment with three of my closest friends. The apartment is close to school, is still in the same city as my house, and it is the first incentive I have been offered to act like an adult. However, as fun as it would be to move in with them and live close to school, I would have to give up the comfort of being home with my family. 

I am very much considering this offer. However, coming from a Mexican household where I am the only daughter, I do not think it would be easy to convince my loving yet overbearing parents to move in with my friends. For one thing, two of those potential roommates are boys. Even though I am not attracted to any of them, this little tidbit is bound to pose a great problem as I am a woman in an incredibly patriarchal world. (But that is another issue altogether.)

Wish me luck! And, if it does not pan out, then it was not meant to be. However, I do plan to move out soon to go to law school in 2017. If I do not do something to ease my parents and myself into that transition, then my grades are sure to fall. 

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- Vianey