Stuff From My Life
19th June 2013
My roomate's away for the week and since he left I've noticed a dip in my personal discipline. My sleep schedule's out, I've been eating junk food at weird times and the dishes are piling up.
We stay out of each other's way most of the time and he doesn't run my life, but I guess sharing chores is a kind of structure that I've been relying on to schedule my life around. It was the same thing when I lived with my parents, if I was going to have the place to myself for the day I'd go almost feral. I heard an interview on the radio with a scientist who believes that, contrary to the conventional wisdom that evolution drove the birth of civilisation it was the other way around. Basically when humans started to form societies, started to farm, developed language etc., we evolved to better fit that mould.
I'm not an anthropologist or an evolutionary biologist but I think my behaviour draws some parallels to that. Maybe it's being in groups like a family, a tribe or just two guys sharing five rooms tgat make us act like civilised people, maybe we rely on the silent judgement of others to guide our behavior and without it we just stop trying and take the path of least resistance or most pleasure, after all, we al do things on our own we'd never do if there were other people in the room.
Or mayb I'm just a lazy slob who needs to be peer-pressured into acting like a human being, you be the judge.
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