Personal space – Essential to care the ‘self’

Personal space is a concept which emerged as a major arena for discussion in contemporary psychology. Man is a social animal. This is the classical statement belongs to sociology. Humans live in groups. Groups consist of families. Families have their members who share specific roles to play. Though every member is interacting and depending on each other to satisfy and meet their needs, all have their personal life too.

Everyone has 3 faces in a practical sense. One face is known to everyone in society. Here all of our positives are known than our negatives because all hide their weaknesses and reflects only their positives. The second face is known to our closed circle like family, relatives and friends. The third face is known only to self. To satisfy the third face, one needs time for self to think and act. This very personal time makes someone to keep a distance from everyone around him or her and identified as “Personal space”.

Personal space should be respected by couples with each other. The family itself a unit and unity is an unwritten law for successful running. Modern families are mostly nuclear. Responsibilities are shared between the couples and needed for self-satisfaction too. Personal space is needed to keep them satisfied and balance their mental health. 

Most of the individuals are maintain personal space by spending time with social media. It is an argumentative area whether remaining in social media makes someone better or worse. It is purely personal and not the same answer for everyone. Technology makes it easy to bring all connections in our hands. Only secrecy and security is the question mark. The need for personal space felt from teenage to the end of life.

Importance of personal space 

• Offer him or her to do the own interesting activities
• Opportunity for self-satisfaction
• Refreshing experience
• Chance to analyse and identify our interests 
• Minimise the friction between the family members 
• Mark of respect among couples
• Perfect time for self-analysis
• The best way for relaxation 

Effects of excessive personal space

• May leads to overthinking
• Introverted personalities often go into personal space and hesitate to come out
• Too much personal space leads to social isolation
• Create the wrong stimulus like suicidal tendencies among unstable personalities
• Utilised for wrongdoings like plotting criminal activities

Personality playing a major role. Personal space finds more among the introverts. They are more comfortable by keeping them away from others. Anyone who maintains too much personal space should be assessed for mental defects. 

Overall, the success of life depends upon the ability to maintain our equilibrium. Personal space offers everyone to meet their own self based needs. 3rd face of life needs to be taken care well. All need to understand and accept the personal space of others and balance life better.