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The Liminal In-Between
That weird space where you’re fine, but not really
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Recently I put a call out for topics to write on on Substack and got an answer from someone asking about how to find meaning again when you’re feeling flat. This is my answer to that. So thank you for the inspiration!
There are days — maybe weeks — when life flattens out. I’m sure we all have these times every once in a while, don’t we? When we can’t seem to find any meaning in our days and they all seem to blur together.
Not where we go into some catastrophic low like depression, really, but more into a numbing grey. A kind of blahness. The kind where nothing hurts exactly, but nothing shines either. You go through the motions — living on auto-pilot.
You reply to messages with emojis you don’t feel, and also because you don’t have the energy for deep conversations.
You eat because you should, not because you really want to or enjoy it (a bowl of cereal or toast is my go to when I’m in this can’t be bothered state).
You work, sort of — half-assedly.
