Please adjust.

When I was growing up, it was usual for people to ask you to adjust so that four could sit in a seat meant for three.

It doesn't stop there, of course.

You learn to adjust to your sibling's old clothes that don't fit you, classes that don't interest you, friends who don't delight you.

Sometimes, circumstances require us to adjust. It can help us be flexible.

But when we get used to it as a way of life, that is when it takes us away from the life we can live, the one we would like to live.

Space allows you to breathe, to live, to dance. If you are always adjusting, there's hardly any space.