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Week 6: Response to "Personal Space" - 10/23/2021

     In this post, we will discuss personal space. I will add at the end of the post an interesting article about this topic. Some years ago, I saw a news story that was talking about violence in traffic. Why do some people get too angry at traffic? If someone is too close or makes some drastic movement against our car, we see this as a threat.  Our bodies are immensely fragile than our cars. A hit in our bodies will be harmer than a hit in our cars. So why we are so concerned and even mad and angry in traffic?  In the news, a psychologist said that we tend to see our cars as an extension of ourselves. And as our car "is our body" we apply the same rules for it as for our personal space. It was an interesting analysis. When a car is too near to ours, we aren't inside these body personal space. Our bodies remain safe and aware of any personal contact inside the car. But as we consider the car an extension of our body, any threat against it, it is a threat against ourselves. How complex can be this topic! It's so complex that we extend the same rules just not for our bodies, but to everything that is "ours".

    Nowadays all these non-written rules were changed worldwide due to the Covid-19 pandemic. For those who consider the intimate and personal zone's a sacred place, it was a relief to have this rule to stay away to help to stop the spread of the illness. For those who like to be near and touch other people as they talk, this rule was a deep sacrifice. I still don't know if we will live from now on without a change of what we consider as a personal space. What I know for sure is that the "oldest" rules don't apply anymore and will not be applied in the same way again. 

    And you, what do you think about this topic? 


    

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