"Liminal" and "Liminality"

I had to delete a FB post earlier. For some reason I expressed my annoyance with the (over) use of the word liminal in discussions I've had lately. I wrote that it had become an academic buzz word and in the same way I get tired of a Beyonce hook I liked the first 30-zilllion times I heard it - buzzwords start to get on ones nerves. This week alone I feel like I've heard the word at least 1-zillion times and for some reason, I just decided that I've had enough. But why was I so vehement about this at 10:00pm when nobody around me had used the word all day? Why was I even thinking about the word in the first place?

I deleted the rant on Facebook once I realized that I was really trying to express my own frustration about my existence in a liminal space. There I said it. I am not where I was, and not where I will be. But I have been in this space for way too long it seems. Liminal spaces are not supposed to be "places" we stay. In fact its supposed to be impossible really because in some ways a liminal space is not its own enough to even exist. Liminal spaces are supposed to be the transition to a real space from a real space but not a space that can contain or keep any substance. So why and how is it possible for me to be here? Somebody stretched out the definition on wikipedia in a way that makes me feel better. But I totally disagree with much of what they said.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality

Once a person or thing has the ability to "stay" in a liminal space, it is no longer liminal by definition. Maybe that's what scares me... the possibility that my "transition" is has become a stopping point and that this space - not where I will be or want to be - has become the place where I am, instead of the space I am moving through.

This has to change. Perhaps I just got too comfortable with liminality, like whoever wrote the wikipedia etry - and I've tried to define it as a real place. Not so. I gotta shake this off. I need to rediscover my binary instinct.... Either it is, or it isn't.... ones and zeros.... "Do or do not there is no try".... Poop or get off the pot...

Bump Liminality...

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