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n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate…
peculiar how closely the word resembles somber, and is placed on an archive of “sorrows”, when the realization should be...
sonder n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with...
my favorite “word”
I think about this a lot.
This concept always fascinates me