Recently, the term “languishing” is being widely discussed. It is not one I have heard before, but the description of it feels eerily familiar.
An article that was published in The New York Times describes it as “the blah…the dominant emotion of 2021…It wasn’t burnout — we still had energy. It wasn’t depression — we didn’t feel hopeless. We just felt somewhat joyless and aimless. Languishing is a sense of stagnation and emptiness.”
I say, “eerily familiar” because what it triggered were memories of heaviness and blankness, the GUILT of even feeling a tad “languished”.
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