The Picture Says It All

What is it about people and their infatuation with the foot-to-foot-and-a-half of space around them that makes them so keen to invade this space of others while bitterly defending their own to the death?  This supernatural phenomenon has been given scientific terms and is known amongst scientists and professionals worldwide interchangeably as "no-touchas mi-spaesas" and "donnapopa mi-bublas".  Among the common man, however, this area is known simply as "personal space".

This is actually quite an interesting topic of the human mentality, as it refers to a space within about a foot and a half of any given person's body.  A common practice people do with this space is to draw imaginary boundaries around it and erroneously label it as their own.  (In extreme cases, people have been known to act as their own attack dogs when this border has been crossed.)  The size and density of this space depends entirely on the mindset of the person in question, ranging from near-nonexistent vapor to a full meter in all directions of mental impenetrable brick.

A study done by the extremely well known and highly prestigious study group, The Company for the Study and Evaluation of Personal, Physical, Mental, and Metaphorical Area-Mass, or more simply CSEPPMMAM (you know you have heard of it) revealed that, in many cases, the relative volume of any given person's personal space carried a direct relationship to the lifestyle of the person in question.  For example, the size of this space was greatly increased around those rooted in personal or non-physical hobbies or careers, such as Literature, Matematics, Language, and Life Sciences.  Inversely, The size would be increasingly minuscule the more physical the lifestyle of the person in question came to be.  Such lifestyles included, but are not limited to: Theater, Dance, and (to somewhat of a lesser extent) various sporting areas.

This same study also revealed that for every person in the world, there is the existence of at least one other person which, when the two are placed together under controlled conditions, the personal space of both subjects virtually deplete from existence.  A lack of sufficient resources renders this study group unable to determine exactly what conditions trigger this phenomenon, and thus far this conclusion remains to be merely a theory.