In my attempt to invoke a certain feeling with this paper, I found myself faced with a familiar challenge: Focus. One of the biggest observations that came from writing this paper is that I do continue to struggle with controlling my metaphors with complete confidence. I’d like to believe I am getting better at doing so, bit by bit, but I’m not totally there yet. I do still enjoy the challenge, nonetheless. The first draft, and another draft that I scrapped completely, are lists of feelings I would later struggle to translate in a way that would make sense to my specific audience. The title for instance can either intrigue or confuse with frustration: liminal space. A friend of mine insisted I change it, because it “[…] seems too much like a metaphor and there are too many interconnected definitions of it that are vague.” However, I insisted on keeping it because throughout I hoped to further explain what this liminal space was. Hopefully it translates: a …show more content…
Then came the other half to the paper which is essentially the slow acceptance of my parents’ divorce and our relocation. I thought that the personal element helped balance this concept that (to my friend) seemed too vague and disconnected. The plane ride, my first, as I remember it was in many ways a letdown. The blank white that was constant throughout the flight was unnatural to me and the lack of personal space was suffocating. Waiting was all there was to do. All of the thoughts, remembrances, and feelings that come with bored waiting, I tried to contain in the paper. Again, hopefully this translates.