My friend Sandeep sent me a link to an article in The National Post. When I investigated further, I found another interesting article in the New York Times too!
I am bemused because I associate the word with people in prisons. I always enjoyed reading about our politicians, gangsters/murderers/rapists, etc languishing in jail without bail. To associate that word now with what people feel due to the Chinese pandemic is tragi-comedy, at least for me as, I don’t think that I or most people that I know, are languishing in our lives.
Perhaps it is our age or life-styles that even before the pandemic not being very much different to what we experience now but, I wouldn’t go so far as to call it languishing. Frustrating may be but, languishing? Not in my book.
Perhaps it is just semantics but, what do you, my reader think about this definition?