In some countries, many people are choosing to live alone. Do you think this is a positive or negative development?

Choosing to live alone is lately becoming a trend in some societies. I believe that this type of lifestyle brings about unwelcome consequences to the people who opt for it.

Having a one-person household means that only one person is responsible for all the chores, which take up a lot of time to do and leave the person with little or no free time to spend on more productive activities. Take, for example, a student who lives alone in an apartment. Activities such as shopping, cooking, doing the dishes, or the laundry are a few of the time-consuming tasks that would keep him too busy to spend time on his studies or with his friends. Therefore, I believe that such people would find it difficult to balance their lives and soon become exhausted and demotivated.

Another major issue caused by living alone is that it leads to serious health-related problems. Simply put, Inasmuch as humans are social creatures, it is vital for them to live in groups in order to have a healthy life. Being alone takes away the opportunity for them to have an intimate conversation with another person in order to feel loved and eventually leads them toward loneliness and depression. Moreover, people who live alone are likely to have a shorter lifespan than the ones living with other family members. This is due to the fact that depression is known to be one of the major factors of the weakened immune system, which makes people prone to a variety of deadly diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer’s. Hence, people should live with other family members to avoid poor health.

In conclusion, I whole-heartedly believe that living alone brings nothing but misery to people and that it is the onset of many other problems in life.