Mirrors make small spaces look bigger without adding an inch. Perspective can change how a tight season feels.

Perspective can change the experience of a space without changing a single measurement. A mirror adds no room and makes the room livable, which is roughly what a different frame does to a tight season. The money is still short, the schedule is still full, and whether those facts feel like a trap or like a stretch you are passing through depends on something you have some say over.

This is not about pretending. Pick the cramped part of your life and find one true, better sentence about it this week, then use that sentence when somebody asks how things are going.