Have you
ever felt the time passes way slower when you’re driving on medium road as
compared to highway, though it’s about the same hours spent? Have you ever felt
suffocating in a limited space which only allows little movements, as though
you’re trapped and will never be freed? There are different kinds of space
exist around us, both literally and verbally defined. It is somewhat funny to
see how often we perceive the sufficient physiological space as insufficient
psychological space available. Perhaps we simply ask for more when we have our
basic needs satisfied, perhaps we are born to aim for more secured environment
or perhaps we feel threatened at the intrusion of others which we least
expected or even, the most desired ones. At times we feel lonely at people’s
absence, as though there’s too much space for ourselves alone and hence, the
urge to have someone filling in the blank. Nevertheless, we tend to find it
stressful when the particular person does not perfectly fit in the slot as we
perceived him as over-controlling and that we need fresh air coming in between,
to help smoothen and freshen up everything, including the difficult times once had,
forgotten about previous moments when we in need of other living beings’
presence. We reserve space for the special someone or perhaps the special group
of people, but we complain on their intrusion in the same time due to the
lesser personal space available; such conflicting desires, such irony.
