Sharing

I've always wanted to live on a campus. Or at least in a colony. Or in today's world filled with high rise apartments, I suppose a block of flats would be the thing. The only time I've come anywhere close to this is during the five years I spent in hostel. I remember leaving home as an excited seventeen year-old. I was going away to college and to a hostel. Community living seemed so full of possibilities. Look at the number of friends my siblings had, friends they were really close to. Friends they shared everything with - except toothbrushes and innerwear!! My niece told me once that on a school trip, two of her friends had used her toothbrush and she had thrown it away and bought herself a new one immediately. This, in true hostel language is called snobbery. I've been guilty of this too, for the love of anything under the sun, how can you share a toothbrush?? or a bra or a panty?? I thought about this - I have a lot of time to think, since the prescription is rest and relaxation and I'm bored of watching TV. My own thoughts seem a better place to be than in front of the TV.

Here's a list of things I wouldn't want to share:

• Toothbrush (and all allied equipment)
• Lipstick (okay, I may be too finicky here, but I'm just not comfortable sharing a lipstick unless it's with some family member - okay, okay, I am a snob)
• Innerwear
• Any guy I'm on smooching terms with ( not that I'm ever on those terms with more than one guy at a time but if he's sharing himself, well, I think I'll pass )
• Pillows
• Towels
• My diary
• My bathroom ( this has exceptions, but on the whole, I like my bathroom to be mine)

And a list of things I wouldn't mind sharing:

• Toothpaste
• My side of the bed
• Myself
• The Wagon-R
• My mom's room :-) (I spend about 50% of my time there and it's my favourite place - though, I just realised I've never asked her whether she minds me sharing it)
• My dad's umbrella ( I love this so much, he bought himself a spare one)
• A train berth
• A cup of coffee
• Recipes
• Water
• The price of a meal when I'm out with friends
• My home
• Love & laughter

Not that you have to live in a colony/flats/hostel to share these things but it's just more practical to think of sharing when you live in close communion with other people. But on the whole, I find that I'm okay with sharing most things with the people I love.