Query For The Day:
Can one ever, truly, have enough space?
Minimalists will reply with a resounding "yes!" Maximalists would say "no!" every time the question is posed. (I note that minimalist comes up as a word but maximalist does not. Can someone answer why? I'm staying with the word, which is a perfect opposite to minimalist.)
But, I digress. Back to my topic at hand.
The need for space is a personal and subjective desire that will be different for every person on the planet. For the super-riche, the house that I heard about last night, totalling seventeen thousand square feet, would feel tiny and cramped for sure. For the homeless, a seventeen-thousand-square foot home might be overwhelming. Is there a compromise amount of square feet needed per person?
I know, from being involved with the planning of two, new, public school buildings, that there are federal and state guidelines for how many square-feet per pupil must be allowed in the design of the structure. I am aware that laboratory studies on rats and mice have demonstrated that happy, contented rodents can change virtually overnight into depressed, stressed, and aggressive animals. Too many mice in a shoebox has been proven to be a bad idea.
What about we humans? Some of us can live in tight quarters and survive, even thrive. Look at how the military trains soldiers to co-exist in very restricted space quarters. Other cultures have long lived with many people of all ages crammed into spaces so small one cannot imagine how they learn to live with one another.....but they do and successfully.
"Space, the final frontier", as the voice says on "Star Trek". Is it more space or less space?
Time will tell.
Ancora imparo
