Like many of my fellow graduates I find myself living at home after graduation. Combine this with a steady job and it means that the whirlwind madness of college life is most definitely at an end. Living at home has many advantages. For example, expenses are lower and one can save enough to pay off one's loans earlier. Furthermore, living once again with my mother means that I do get to spend more time with her.
Most people outlive their parents and once they are gone they can never be replaced.
I don't want any regrets once my mother is gone. On the other hand, sometimes I do want to replace my mother with another model. One who was at Woodstock, perhaps. To other colleagues this was something of a shock. We have that expectation because families used to be like spider plants.