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.
The inability to create any meaningful effort at creating a brand - despite brand creation being a company's only hope at success - leaving the brand floating in the ether. Not making progress, not making mistakes. Just existing in a space that humans cannot see.
Bob hasn't done a thing for that company, idk how he hopes to make it. He's just floating around in brand purgatory, hoping for a miracle.
When you’re playing any Game Pigeon game (usually Crazy 8) with your friends and one of them leaves or turns their phone off, meaning they cannot complete their turn and you or your friends are trapped in an endless purgatory where nobody can move on to their turn because it cannot become their turn.
The only way to exit this Game Pigeon purgatory is to quit and make a new game, excluding the previously absent player.
Person #1: Wait, why isn’t Lauren going? It’s her turn.
Person #2: She turned her phone off. Nobody else can play now. Guess we’re trapped in a Game Pigeon Purgatory.
Person #1: Fuck Lauren
That point of waiting after round one for your penile facilities to return for round two.
Hold on a minute. I’m in penile purgatory!
The act of being forbidden to receive food made by a coworker because you were being rude.
“Oh, you want to say something rude, well now you’re in food purgatory.”
Window shopping online and build a shopping cart list of things you want to buy but know you won’t due to financial or nonessential reasons.
Hey why is your amazon cart full of computer and home goods? Are you going to buy them or are they going to sit in cart purgatory?
The period of time between the culmination your final semester and your graduation where you're required to make crucial decisions which decide how your life is gonna turn out.
Dude, watcha gonna do during your graduation purgatory?
Thinkin about takin a road trip and gettin laid bro...