No Regrets

Three months ago for the sake of saving money( which i badly needed to) I got a housemate to share the rent and other expenses.
So the new roomie turns up, he is a nice, softspoken, non smoker, teetotaller and very shy.
He made tea for me in the mornings, Didn't talk much, did the dishes and ate whatever i suggested we cook for the day.
Three weeks pass like this and then things begin to change slowly; he becomes a bit too much friendly, starts to talk too much, stops making tea in the morning, stopped cleaning the dishes, started to crib about what needed to be cooked. That was all fine with me until he became inquisitive and wanted to know how much did i earn in a month, how many girlfriends i had(i have a clean record in this it has been zero for ages now), who was my first love, who are my closest friends and thr personal lives, my family details etc. etc. This was fine with me too as i didn't have to answer and always snubbed him whenever he asked such questions.

Then after few more weeks he started preaching me things like; smoking is bad for me and i should stop smoking and if i have to smoke i should not smoke when he is around because he gets a head ache, i should not drink alcohol or eat non vegetarian food on tuesdays and thursdays, he would turn up with incense sticks in his hand in my room at 6:30 in the morning, he would crib about each and every grocery item bought and would try to convince me that what flavours are right and what we should eat and buy.

By this time i was loosing my patience but kept quite as i did not want to loose $500 he was paying every month and i must tell you this was a very testing time for me.

A few more things i would like to tell about him; besides the preacher attitude he had he used to go to whore house every month( ofcourse not on tuesdays and thursdays), he watched porn movies and surfed porn websites 6-7 hours a day, he was a pervert, he could not stand ciggaratte smoke in the house but could sit in a strip joint full of smoke for the whole night, he drank 1.5 lit of pepsi everyday(strange), cursed Australia and its culture everyday( I love the place and people here), cursed Indians even more, he does not like sholay, shawshank redemption, clapton, dil chahta hai, has no idea who Sean Connery is but can crib a lot about james bond movies and so eventually sometime around last week the situation became so bad that every time he opened his mouth i wanted to hit him.
But somehow i managed to keep my cool mostly by avaoiding to see his face.
Then last week Apu, who did not know 1/4th of what i have written above asked me why am i tolerating him and i should have kicked him out by now. I suddenly realised that why the hell am i compromising so much for the sake of money, why am doing something i regret every day.
Yesterday i asked him to leave, he was shocked and wanted to know why and all i could say was " If you dont leave immediately i might hit you real soon as i find you quite repulsive, it was a mistake to share house with you" He looked heart broken as he called working men's hostel and luckily they had a room available.He will be moving on Sunday.

I might have to leave the house and move into smaller accomodation or i might keep spending extra $500 a month but i will have NO REGRETS for sure.