Are they banishing the one who speaks the truth or the one who feels depressed from nine villages?
In 2021, while the pandemic was still very much a part of our lives, an article published in The New York Times described a new state that had become increasingly common among people. This widespread condition, called "languishing," was defined as something that was neither full burnout nor clinical depression, but rather a persistent sense of joylessness and aimlessness. Today, the Cambridge Dictionary defines the word as "to exist [...]"