A year ago, I had a sense of anticipation about what was ahead - career plans, trips and hopes tightly held. But the pandemic wreaked havoc, upending everything and forcing me into a liminal space. Liminality is the word psychologists use to describe the transition between one distinct season of life and another and comes from the Latin word for threshold.
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Everyone I know seems to be experiencing this sense of limbo, from the colleague forging a new career out of the ashes of the old one that vanished overnight to the friend whose marriage buckled under the strain of lockdown.