(03-08-2024, 03:55 AM)Ninurta Wrote: Liminality leaves most folks with a feeling of anxiety, often a troubled feeling that one cannot quite put a finger on, but an unsettled feeling nonetheless. It happens when we find ourselves in a transitional time or place, where we are no longer anchored on the old, nor have we a firm grip on what comes next. We feel adrift, in an alien place, and desperately want to be firmly in one or the other, but not "between".
Tell me about it. We're ready to sell this place and an investment home in Texas. Go and get committed to the place we'll live in 'til things go dark.
I've never lived in an area I liked more than where we are right now. I should know ... I've moved over 20 times since I moved out of my parent's house. But, the past couple of months I can walk around the side of the house and it just feels like I've fallen into a dream and I'm in a place I don't belong (or don't belong anymore).
The place in VA is almost done. Was back there a week or so ago and it doesn't feel welcoming to me (at least not yet). The wife's leery of it because it's so remote. I don't expect her to be out there much anyway. It's gonna be a guy's retreat if it turns into anything at all.
Worst of all, we've tried to find a simple house-in-town to buy and can't find one for the life of me. We did see an alternate option, a sub-homestead sized property just outside the city limits, but the sellers jacked the price through the roof. I asked the real estate agent where the hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of improvements could be seen ... and she stood there with no answer and a look on her face like she'd been caught trying to steal something. We'll take a different approach next time we go.
I got a haircut this morning after my chores were done. The barber was talking to me in whispers saying he could feel the dam was about to break. The guy never talks to me. He just cuts my hair. Weird one today.
Can't put a finger on when I first got that feeling. Maybe when Bill Clinton's impeachment just petered out. Maybe when the Peanut Farmer flopped. Maybe when Nixon took us off the Gold Standard. I ain't the first one to get it. Age|Maturity|Worldliness probably has a lot to do with it. I don't really get that feeling when I'm around other people most of the time. Not unless they bring it up in discussion.
Good topic. Good thoughts in here.