My roommate and I had recently watched A Game of Shadows (the Sherlock Holmes Series) and realized that we are pretty much like Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. They are both mature and responsible, so are we, one of them is on a weird side though an absolute genious in his trade (me, being modest, but realistic) the other one is a knowledgeable and respectable professional with strong moral values(my roomie), they each have different interests, but are friends, hang out together often and have each other’s back in the times of need. Well… Mostly, Dr Watson is helping Sherlock Holmes but.. who’s fault is that that Sherlock Holmes’s life is more adventurous and interesting than Watson’s, right?

After giving it a better thought I realized that these are not the only two iconic roommates who we can relate to. If you remember a movie called Interview With The Vampire the two main characters there, the vampires, were also roommates and they started out as friends with one looking after and mentoring the other one. That is just like my roommate and me, taking turns in mentoring one another.

There is another great movie about roommates, called The Fight Club, which is also quite old but is considred the undying classic (am I right or wrong?) with two psychopathic friends crashing an old abandoned house in an industrial area, taking on the national finance system. Even though one of the roommates is figment of the other’s inflamed imagination, and they are, technically, terrorists, they still remind me of us with all the fun and philosophical conversations they have at the beginning.

Also if you have could consider Timon and Pumbaa from Lion King to be roomates sharing the jungle then it could also be us, hanging out and having fun together, we are sort of missing Simba but I don’t think either of us wants the third person to enter our household.

I didn’t even realize untill now, that all the characters I compared me and my roommate to are a males. I guess it can say something about us in a psychological sense…