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The mental room you need before you can think straight, let alone meditate.
means The mental or emotional state someone is in, especially whether there's enough clarity or calm in it to think, cope, or function well.
from A 20th-century compound of 'head' and 'space,' built on the metaphor of the mind as a physical place with room inside it. It drifted through counterculture and self-help talk ('I need some headspace') before meditation apps and wellness culture gave it a second life as the room you clear out on purpose.
- origin
- slang before it was an app
- irony
- app named after thing it shrinks
- not location
- you cannot rent more of it
- requires
- removing people, not adding apps