Personal Narrative: Breaking The Regular

Breaking the Regular
Personal space is an invisible boundary separating one from others to be normally content. When violated, one may feel discomfort, anxiety, or even anger. As humans, we set rules in our minds called customs. Many of these vary from culture to culture but some are universal. One of those universal rules is the idea of personal space. In America, we have a strong sense of personal space, especially when it comes to strangers invading that space. From what I have experienced in the social norm, violating personal space of various individuals has a great effect in today’s society.
My first victim’s space invasion was at the gym. After my brief run on the treadmill, I came near a girl I did not know that had a fresh white
My brain exploded with many ideas on how to depict my next norm exercise. The idea I came up with was to closely hover over the table; at the precise moment I would interrupt their steady played game by simply taking the ball away. Thinking to myself that this was a flawless exercise I went right to it. I came near the table, and positioned myself approximately centimeters away from the net. In following, I began to stare at the vibrant orange ball as if I was a curious dog going in for a treat. Doing this for some time, one of the young men politely asked if I wanted to play. Ignoring his question, I continued to stare at the ball as it glided across the wooden table. Time went by and I felt the two young men become quite uncomfortable. The same guy then stopped the game and put the paddle toward my hand. He insisted that I’d join the game and play. I denied his kind gesture and asked “Can I just hold the ball?” Curious to why I only wanted the ball he questionably replied, “Yes?” So I swiftly took the ball from his left hand and walked away with it. Both kids demanded, “No, No, No…. give us the ball back!” I ignored their demands and continued to walk away until I was out of sight. At that moment I decided to go back for questioning. As I walked toward them, I saw there heated faces and approached them with my arm extended out to drop the ball back
I was very curious how someone would act if I asked to use their headphones. This not only broke their personal space by me tapping them on the shoulder forcing them to take their headphones off, but also would be asking to use something they were currently using and personally owned. I tried to spot the nicest headphones, and the ones I picked were on a huge well-built man. Hesitantly approaching him, I tapped him on the back and he suddenly turned to me and shifted his head downward to where I was standing. He looked instantly irritated that I stopped his workout and made him take his headphones off. As we faced one another I asked, “Do you mind if I use your headphones?” He assuredly replied, “Defiantly not! These are way too expensive.” He then avoided me by putting his headphones back on and going right back to his workout. A shot of awkwardness shot through my body and I rapidly left the gym. Through his eyes I went from being a “normal” person working out in society; to a “weird” person who you just ignore. Just a thought, but if I was a female this man would most defiantly given his prized headphones up. It just comes to a matter of what’s normal in today’s