Liminal Teenage Dream

I've lived my life in the liminal.

It's a theme of my life.

Well, this life is liminal anyway.


I don't live for the destination, I live for the journey.

The journey is my destination.


Yet I totally forgot about this in a different context.


We tend to rush to get a degree, to get married, to have kids...

Okay not really; let me take it down a notch.


We, at my age rush to get closer to those things.

We try to get good grades, we try to get into a relationship.

But I've realised something that is so easy to miss.


The period of time, between being friends and getting attached, the liminal stage, is actually an amazing place to be.

The thing is that it's a stage of limbo. It's a stage that is not called a stage.

It's a transitionary stage.


But i think it's the most beautiful period of all.

Here everything that happens... decides the fate of both involved.

The funny thing is that if it does not work out, there's nothing much to remember from this stage.

What happened? Looking back... you may recall nothing.

But if it does work out, then this stage was when everything happened.

It's just that this stage was the one in which everything was still left unsaid.

It's amazing how what happens after affects what happens before- The way in which this period ends decided the meaning of the memories kept of this stage.

I guess if it never works out, the stories never get told, and the emotions are never remembered as being more than just one's own.


Whatever the case, all I'm saying is, don't rush this stage.

Just because you're not at point A or B does not mean that you are lost.

We tend to be anxious when we are in between, but don't be.

In due course you will find yourself at either one.

But either way, the journey lasts only as long as the destination is not reached.


Enjoy the journey while you can.

Whichever point you end in, you'll never have it like this again.


One side has freedom and carefreeness, the other commitment and love.

But this liminal state has both, and very rarely do both meet.

The cold wind before the storm does not last long as the thunder and lightning eventually bring rain upon the earth. So, treasure the transitionary periods.