on liminal spaces - anniething,’s Substack

these days, everyone’s been talking about liminal spaces. having first encountered the term on substack earlier this year, i’ve been drawn to the intentional vagueness of the term and the multiple physical & metaphorical meanings it entails. it physically refers to eerie places that exist only as transitory spaces between where you start and where you’re going—quiet hallways & echoey staircases & never-ending plane rides—that we pass through without noticing. otherwise, it refers to a threshold, to “to be on the precipice of something new but not quite there yet:” an uncertain mental state as we grapple with a decision or sudden emotional change. it’s in liminal spaces where we’re forced to confront ourselves, as we have nothing immediately comfortable around us to cling to. perhaps that’s why it’s a topic surfaced by substack writers, as we all find ourselves floating in this limbo. writing out in the open is how we cope in our period of individuation & self-realization. i’ve found my

these days, everyone’s been talking about liminal spaces. having first encountered the term on substack earlier this year, i’ve been drawn to the intentional vagueness of the term and the multiple physical & metaphorical meanings it entails. it physically refers to eerie places that exist only as transitory spaces between where you start and where you’re going—quiet hallways & echoey staircases & never-ending plane rides—that we pass through without noticing. otherwise, it refers to a threshold, to “to be on the precipice of something new but not quite there yet:” an uncertain mental state as