space, the final frontier

       What people don't tell you about larger living spaces is that you can go longer without cleaning and washing. That pile of laundry that used to sit so prominently in your eyeline in a small apartment, is swallowed and made unnoticeable by the echoing empty space in quarters twice the size. You let it grow to an unreasonable size because it becomes an invisible fixture lining a barren wall. A bursting stack of papers on a small desk becomes a needle in a haystack on a two-meter desk. A dish in a large country-style sink is hardly noticeable, compared to a small, shallow sink that thrusts it's contents out like the chest of a proud strutting pigeon that has mistaken itself for a peacock. Big spaces swallow the mess and hide the dirt. How often does one sweep in such a place? Twice per week? Once a decade? Never? I step on glass and can't even pinpoint where it came from, let alone when it came from.