If I can touch you or you can hear me whisper? You’re in my personal space. If we have a good relationship, this is a good space to be. However, if we’re not friends, this can be a perilous place to hang out. They’re the risks you take when you enter somebody’s personal space without their permission..
A good example of the risk is: I saw a video recently of somebody (we’ll call him Jack) confronting a person leaving a court room, Jack was putting his phone up to the person’s face asking him, Why did he do it?
The person didn’t take kindly to Jack invading his personal space and expressed his dissatisfaction by giving Jack a box into the face.
After a few seconds in a daze on the ground, Jack said, “You hit me.”
The person walked away without replying. Jack didn’t get up and follow; I believed he may have learned a valuable lesson about entering people’s personal space without permission the hard way.
Getting hit is just one of the risks,
However, most confrontations end up with people arguing until they remove themselves from the other person’s personal space where they whisper to their friends, “Wait until the next time.”
When I see this happening, all I think is that they haven’t learned their lesson yet, or life’s too short.
Common sense should tell you. If you don’t like somebody, don’t interact with them.
The quotes that spring to mind are: “If you mess with the bull, you get the horns.” Or “Disrespect other people’s personal space at your peril.”
