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Making Space
Space is a luxury. It’s actually one of the things we pay the most for.
A larger home? Expensive. Driving rather than taking the bus? Expensive. (In areas which have buses, that is).
Land is expensive. It’s been that way for a long time. We punish people by taking away space, by shoving them into crowded and overcrowded prisons.
The other kind of space is expensive too. The time-space continuum. Time isn’t money, it costs money.
Lockdowns and Space
I live in a one bedroom apartment with one other person. Housing is expensive in our city, so this is what we have. It’s sometimes enough. Most of the time it’s enough, although we do have a book problem.
For two people trying to work at home? It’s not enough. And the frustrating irony is that if we both worked at home full time, permanently, we could afford enough space.
Instead, it’s been week after week of temporary. We can’t do anything to increase our space or even realistically reorganize it, because then we would have to put it back. We would have to move, then move again.
It’s worth it not worth it.
Some people have had the luxury of space. Some people have had space that they have realized isn’t so great after all. If COVID has killed anything in the…