It's that place between life and death, depending upon how quickly you die is how long you stay in there. It is where you are between lives and can see the future and are still in the past. Just waiting to pass into the future, but you want to hold on to the Past.
My grandma was in purgatory for about a week before she passed on. She could see us hear us and correspond with us, yet she could see here and correspond with those that had passed before her. She was in between worlds, just waiting for everyone here on Earth to be okay for her to pass on. And when she did, there was no communication with us, it was just the afterlife. I saw her talking to her husband, who had past 3 years prior. I heard her talking to my father who had passed 23 years prior. She was in between worlds, and she didn't know where she belonged. It just took the final cousin coming home to say goodbye before she could truly leave us and pass on.
by KB98391 September 29, 2017
It's that place between life and death, depending upon how quickly you die is how long you stay in there. It is where you are between lives and can see the future and are still in the past. Just waiting to pass into the future, but you want to hold on to the Past.
My grandma wasn't purgatory for about a week before she passed on. She could see us hear us and correspond with us, yet she could see here and correspond with those that had passed before her. She was in between worlds, just waiting for everyone here on Earth to be okay for her to pass on. And when she did, there is no communication with us, it was just the afterlife.
by KB98391 September 29, 2017
by Dickolas Cage November 10, 2019
Rather than getting sent to hell for eternity, I lucked out and got banished to a Purgatorial Meanderance in no man's land.
by Vin Nguyen October 11, 2017
Experienced largely during a person's mid-twenties, denoting a period of a person's professional life where they feel they are pointlessly clocking in and clocking out, endlessly over what is viewed as an infinite length of time.
"I'm stuck in professional purgatory, Sue - however many jobs I apply for, I still have the cold sweat of having to wakeup tomorrow to do the same job that I hate, day in, day out"
"I'm so glad to have escaped professional purgatory; I've finally got a job where people give me a real wage, real responsibility and a sense of worth!!"
"I'm so glad to have escaped professional purgatory; I've finally got a job where people give me a real wage, real responsibility and a sense of worth!!"
by Marwam September 27, 2013
The state of boredom, dislike, or displeasure a person experiences in between periods of changing their hair color, cut, or style. Can be used to describe the uncomfortable "grow-out" wait after a bad haircut, or recovery time after a damaging dye job.
by emmatortie June 7, 2015