Empty House

i live with my parents in a house close to uni.... obviously im not going to move out (just yet), because i live so close, moving out would be rather pointless. Having said that they decided to tell me yesterday that they were going up the coast for the week and that i have to look after the house.

So im here by myself in a large house....

It seems like a waste to me, just the fact that i am one person in such a large space i can only use one room at a time and the rest of the house is doing nothing. I could have something running in each of the rooms but i still couldn't enjoy all of those things i can only be in one place at one time and therefore, only enjoying one thing at a time while the rest of the rooms running things for no reason. Which i think is quite wasteful, not good :( .

This makes me think why does every body need so much space. I think its wierd that i can walk around my suburb and not see a single person just streets houses the occaisional car (unless you go to the main road). Imagine if we gathered together in to small communities like villages where everybody slept and ate together and then did whatever elsewhere....... i guess it would be a super structure like an apartment block. There are roughly 50 houses on my block and about 80 block in my suburb so im thinking it would be less than 500 apartments.

now can you imagine the space that would be available for things like trees, solar panels, live stock, gardens, whatever. Also all those people in such a confined space i guess would build more of a community feel, something along the lines of a small town. But....

I can see this being a bit stressful on a lot of people, i know people dont like to be watched or to be in the spotlight nor do they like confined spaces or noise. So why do we all try to isolate our selves from one another????

Maybe its fear of being judged or what is left over from our need to define who we are as an independant person. Its interesting that now we have the "infrastructure" to do more or less what ever we want we push to be individual, to do our own thing. It wasn't that long ago that everything we did was for the family or the community because it benifited us and those close to us in a positive way. (i will get into why communism doesnt work in another post)

and now...........

Globailsation
Consumerism and i guess at our core in some way
Republicans (our need to separate from our family to be more individual)

Because why would we do something for other people??
The World Revolves Around You (obviously)

for those of you who regularly donate to charities (e.g oxfam, unicef, redcross, the wilderness society) how much of that actually goes to the cause you donate?? really...... when that money leaves your hand you feel good because you think that you have done your part and contributed to a good cause and most of all it comes back to the forementioned point of "The World (obviously) Revolves Around You", but have you really thought about where it is going when you donate to these organisations you generaly donate to the whole..... Yes thats right to the whole.... which means that the money you give might not actually go where you want it to.

For example if an organisation has a large project and a few smaller projects and you decide to donate to on of the smaller projects because the cause is close to your heart the organisation may decide that the money is put to better use in the large project. Also these organisations have quite a few paid staff aswell not to mention the cost inccured with running projects like and organisations like those.

finally why are we so afraid to interact with other people? i mean we push for independence but endup only being comfortable with a select few