
Living small is living thoughtfully. You may be living small for all sorts of reasons, but it’s unlikely that you’re doing so by mistake. To actually live and work in a small space, and survive, takes more effort than living and working “regular size.”
Television shows and magazine spreads make living in a small home or working in a tiny workplace seem like time spent in a fairy wonderland, like being in an expertly crafted puzzle box where everything fits together in such clever ways, so exquisitely, that its builders can’t possibly have been humans.
Tiny home and workplaces are, however, to the best of my knowledge, designed and built by actual Homo sapiens. They are rarely the perfect little nirvanas that in the ideal world they would indeed be.