Hi, I'm David Pena Guzman.

And I'm Ellie Anderson.

Welcome to Overthink.

The podcast for two friends, who are also professors, put philosophy in dialogue with the everyday.

Because big ideas are within everyone's reach.

Ellie, you just moved.

So I want to hear what your experience of that was like.

Yeah.

So before the pandemic, I lived with a long-time friend of mine. She was my

roommate. And I thought that I never wanted to live alone. My thinking was, I've tried living

alone. I found it really depressing. I'm sort of not my best self when I live alone. I'm likely to

skimp on doing the dishes, watch more TV than I

ordinarily might. And so I actually really like living with people to help regulate me.

And then, you know, a shift really happened during COVID. Suddenly when I was spending all of my

time at home, not only working from home, but also spending every evening at home, et cetera.

I started to crave more space and more alone time. And the same thing happened to my roommate.

And now we both live alone. So I actually discovered that I really like living alone.

It's just a matter of how I live alone. I live alone best when I'm in close community with other people.

So yeah, I think COVID really changed my perspective on my living situation.

How about you?

So I've lived alone in the past.

Back in 2014, I was doing a fellowship in New Orleans, and I lived by myself for the first time as an adult.

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