Why feeling sad is no reason not to be happy.

Choose a liminal place near you. Perhaps a cafe, a bridge, an airport, a waiting lounge in a train station, a pathway between two places, a hotel lobby, a leafy garden arbour. If you prefer to experience this at home, go to your balcony or verandah or place a chair directly under a door frame.

Go there and absorb the feeling of the space. Experience how you are free to just observe when you are in a liminal place. In the privacy of your mind you may wish to briefly salute the past, and touch lightly on the empty space of the future, and then settle here in the space between them both. Take in the sounds of clinking cultery, people walking, children playing in the distance. If you are at an airport, enjoy that you are not queuing at the check-in, or rifling through your pockets for passports, tickets of timetables. Watch the ebb and flow of traffic. Sometimes there is a crush of bustling people, then it empties and becomes still for a while. Just be here in this liminal space. No conclusions to reach, no plans to make, nothing to solve. For now, you don't know, and you can experience the subtle release of a liminal place. Linger there in silence for a while and then leave when it's time.

- 'The Uses of Sadness' by Karen Masman



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