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When people reach middle age and their lives become stable, the first characteristic that emerges in middle-aged men is:It is to begin to love solitude and make it a sacred time of prayer.

In their home-centered life, they like to reminisce about the past over a beer in a barbecue restaurant, go hiking outdoors to keep in shape, or just listen to music and relax in the car while playing a few games.

If they really cannot go out, the bathroom becomes a place for middle-aged men to be alone at home.

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Middle-aged men’s obsession with the bathroom has always been a mystery. “My family is always puzzled and asks me what is in the bathroom that makes me stay there for an hour?”

Little do they know that for middle-aged men, the bathroom at home is no longer just a place to clean. They quietly transformed the bathroom into their own internet cafe and began to play house in it happily.

Middle-aged men usually start their bathroom renovations with the toilet. In order to get a more immersive experience when the bathroom is empty, smart toilet lids have become the standard for middle-aged people. Massage, cleaning, drying and music must all be in place to be a qualified entry-level "Internet cafe".

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For middle-aged men who are usually surrounded by trivial matters in life, singing K while taking a shower in the bathroom has become their moment of decompression.

In order to get a better stereo experience, the shower head should be a canopy type, the towel rack should be electrically heated, and a waterproof mobile phone holder should be attached to the enclosed shower room, and you will instantly have a 3D surround sound experience. Even the most primitive handheld shower head can be used as a karaoke microphone.The bathroom has become a secret stage for middle-aged men to sing and dance wildly.

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"When the public opinion field expects middle-aged men to become strong pillars in the workplace and mature and stable backbones in the family, middle-aged men choose to hide in the bathroom where no one is watching and have fun for a while."

The middle-aged man's lifestyle is all in the toilet

There is a consensus that when the lives of middle-aged people become increasingly stable and eventually converge into a straight line between home and work, they will automatically want to carve out a new life copy in this monotonous inertia.

Different people have different solutions to this idea of ​​making slight changes to daily life in order to make it more interesting.

The most cost-effective renters choose to buy projectors and lazy sofas, so that even if they only have a single room, they can stay there comfortably all day long; the workers who decorate their workstations like sanatoriums think that since they cannot change the fate of overtime, they have to sleep, lie down and get massages in the office.The middle-aged man shifted the focus of the renovation to the toilet.

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At first, in order to improve the quality of life in the "temporary residence" toilet, the middle-aged man first installed small equipment to enhance the emotional value, such as mobile phone holders, aromatherapy, and foot baths.

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Later, as they spent more and more time in the toilet, some middle-aged men, after hosting several work meetings and revising several business documents in the toilet, began to think about transforming the space near the toilet into their "second workstation."

"The small table that was previously installed to place toiletries and sundries is now just wide enough to fit a 13.3-inch laptop. I use a thermos to get a cup of water, and the atmosphere is no different from WeWork."

Gradually, the bathroom has even become a "study room" where middle-aged men can concentrate and improve their efficiency."Although some home designers who care about the atmosphere will recommend using warmer light throughout the house. But the biggest rebellion of middle-aged men is to insist on using a beam of cold light in the bathroom to create a military training atmosphere of sleeping on straw and tasting gall."

"Some people like to work overtime in coffee shops, thinking that white noise can help them to improve their concentration; some people prefer to study in study rooms, believing that extreme silence can lead to extreme concentration. As for me, I put a computer stand in front of the toilet. The more bizarre the place, the more motivated I am."

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When middle-aged men begin to attach more functional demands to the bathroom, the bathroom becomes equivalent to another "second bedroom" in the home.

"I also installed an air conditioner in the bathroom at home to ensure that when I fantasize in there, it will be warm in winter and cool in summer, so that I don't suffer."

When people reach a certain age, they have to start taking care of themselves. Even middle-aged men who call themselves rough guys will occasionally have the urge to buy a dressing table. "Melatonin, hair loss medicine, and massage combs are always thrown around. The mirror cabinet in the bathroom has become my small storage cabinet, and the small bits and pieces of middle-aged men now have a place to go."

37-year-old Lao Xu is the technical director of a factory. Long periods of sitting at work and business trips often cause him to suffer from shoulder and neck pain, so Lao Xu gradually converted the bathroom at home into a small massage spa room.

"After having moxibustion twice in a massage hospital, I saw the moxa sticks used by doctors and planned to do DIY therapy at home." In order not to disturb his family, Lao Xu added a plastic sofa chair to the bathroom, and he would lie in it even when he was not doing moxibustion.

Transforming the bathroom into one's own private space is sometimes a hidden way for middle-aged men to "show off"."There is even space for lying down in my toilet, and my wife allows me to do this. Those who understand will understand. This shows my status in the family."

The private land of middle-aged men

As the saying goes, a man is independent at thirty and free from doubts at forty. When middle-aged men have considerable independent control over their lives, the first thing they think of is not necessarily to pursue consumption of obvious luxury goods, but to quietly enrich themselves in places where no one can see."Normally, I can do it in a rough way, but when conditions permit, going to the toilet must be extremely luxurious."

So in recent years, when many home bloggers have set off a wave of minimalist decoration, middle-aged men just want to treat the bathroom as an "extremely complex" sanatorium.

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If putting a sofa in the bathroom is the ultimate ideal of middle-aged men, then buying a bathroom stool is the ideal entry point for them to renovate their toilets.

"Stereotypically, sitting down to take a shower is reserved for the elderly, the young, the sick, the disabled, and pregnant women. But as an ordinary middle-aged man, I also want to have the privilege of being lazy after a tiring day, just like the ascetics under the waterfall and the monkeys in the rain forest who can take a shower while sitting down."

In addition to improving the bathroom's hardware functions, the middle-aged man has also gradually put a lot of thought into improving the software here.

After Lao Xu's daughter was two and a half years old, the whole family began to cultivate her habit of going to the toilet independently and away from iPads and mobile phones. So Lao Xu nailed a row of iron racks on the wall next to the toilet to place children's picture books.

As a result, Lao Xu unknowingly discovered that he had also followed his daughter in giving up the habit of using his cell phone while squatting on the toilet, turning the toilet into a room shielded from cell phone signals.

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When asked why he is so keen on staying in the toilet, Alai, a middle-aged man born after 1985, explained that "I can do something while using the toilet so that I don't feel like I'm wasting time."

"Of course, lying on the sofa and watching videos and playing games is more free and comfortable, but there is always a sense of guilt for doing nothing; however, if you play with your phone while going to the toilet, you can claim that you are making good use of fragmented time."

What is the middle-aged man who hides in the toilet thinking about?

In the eyes of middle-aged men, the bathroom may be the place with the strongest sense of boundaries in the world. "If it is in the study, bedroom, or office, people can come in by knocking on the door, but as long as you close the door in the toilet, no one will barge in rashly."

Although in discussions on social media, staying in the bathroom for a long time will be criticized for causing inconvenience to other family members. But at the beginning, the middle-aged man who hid in the bathroom just wanted to find a small corner for himself to be alone, a happy "game room".

“When people reach middle age, it is difficult for both men and women to have a space that does not need to be shared and belongs only to one of them.The only time I spend in the toilet is a small world where I can let my imagination run wild.”

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As they become more and more aware of the importance of the bathroom to themselves, when renovating their home, the family can make decisions about other rooms, but the bathroom has become an important place in the home where middle-aged men want to have a strong involvement.

JP, a 33-year-old securities broker, went to the toilet during a meeting at the company headquarters and came up with the idea of ​​renovating the bathroom at home.

"The bathroom in the company has a high ceiling and is not oppressive. The overall style is high-end and dark. Going to the bathroom is really a pleasure. I am now living in an old house given by my parents, so I want to knock down all the old-fashioned floral tiles in the bathroom and change the style. It is also a good opportunity to re-waterproof it."

For single JP, if it is not time for marriage, there is no plan to change the house or renovate the house. "For ordinary families like us, we can't just buy a new house or a new car. Renovating the bathroom is one of the few moments that makes me feel that my life is still under control."

Ending

If you search for terms related to "loving to stay in the toilet" on the Internet today, you'll find a variety of reasons, and those who have this hobby are no longer just middle-aged men.

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When college students have conflicts with their roommates, they feel calm only when they hide in the private bathroom in the dormitory; young people who are preparing for civil service examinations and postgraduate examinations at home regard reading novels, listening to music and watching videos in the toilet as a spiritual remedy to relieve stress; there is also a group of working people who want to hide in the toilet when they are sleepy, tired, want to slack off, or feel wronged. No matter what happens, they want to hide in the toilet.

The same is true for middle-aged men.When I can’t find a place to be alone and want to rationalize my rest, the bathroom is my happy charging room.Once the door is closed and I sit on the toilet, I can rest for a while in broad daylight.”