It's a milestone in every youngster's life - the moment when you move out from your parents' house and start living on your own. There are days when you feel like sitting alone and crying, there are days when you feel like pulling your hair out in anger, there are moments when you feel like 'I just want to run back to my parents' but living alone is an experience that teaches you more about life than anything else. Life is about finding yourself and anyone who's lived on their own will know staying alone is the best way to get there. Here are 10 things living alone teaches you.

3. When the onus of paying bills, buying grocery, keeping an entire apartment neat and tidy falls on you, you learn to depend on yourself and your decisions.

4. When you live alone, you are solely responsible for every move you make. There's no dad or mom who'll swoop in and make those complicated choices for you.