Liminality

 

I’ve been taking a summer course recently, and today we stumbled across the word liminality.

In definition its:
the transitional period or phase of a rite of passage, during which the participant lacks social status or rank, remains anonymous, shows obedience and humility, and follows prescribed forms of conduct, dress, etc.

 

Now with this word comes a few implications, but what i’m most interested about with this word is simply how relevant it appears to be in the world around me.

I see my friends and love ones in this kind of liminality, maybe not in exactly the definition, but more a transitional period, and most of all I see myself in this period.

And with this period, comes alot of dissatisfaction, disappointments, frustrations, confusion, busyness.

Just the thought that we’re not quite there, and no were not the same as we were, and so we start asking ourselves, like where the hell are we going? what’s the point of this, and what about that? am i really good enough to make it, is this what i’m really called to do?

 

But i’m reminded that this frustrating time, is also the most exciting time.

Because the unknown allows for a lot of possibilities. What we expect, may not be what it truly is.

For me, perhaps one of the funny things about being a designer is not being able to design the outcome.

And so being a designer requires risks, requires failure,

requires faith.

Being stuck in a moment is indeed frustrating when we’re trying to get there.

But maybe, i should start being aware of the moment in time, in which i am stuck at.

Because maybe it wasnt where i intended to be,
but its where i need to be.

 

V.

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