December Daily: the impossible

marginaliana asks: What one thing would you most like to do in your life that you think is impossible for whatever reason (financial, laws of physics, etc)?

Last fall, I wrote an article on the tiny-house movement, and ever since then, I've had this yearning to live in a tiny house.

I think the appeal is partly a generalized longing for a simpler life with less stuff in it. (I mean, I just moved house a year and a half ago, and come springtime I'll have to do it again; who wouldn't wish only to own enough stuff to fill an old railway car?) And part of it is the Lure of the Little Bitty, and part of it is an introvert's longing for a tiny space with no room for anyone else in it.

And that's why I can't have it -- because the kind of tiny house I imagine is a one-person space, but I don't want to toss the spouse out in the street.

(Actually in my fantasies he has his own tiny house, close enough for visiting but far enough away that none of his stuff could migrate into my space!)