January 8, 2013
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Sonder
- n. The realisation that each random passerby
is living a life as vivid and as complex as your
own - populated with their own ambitions,
friends, routines, worries, inherited craziness -
an epic story that continues invisibly around
you like an anthill sprawling deep underground,
with elaborate passageways to a thousand other
lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you
might appear only once; an extra sipping coffee
in the background, a blur of traffic passing on
the highway, a lighted window at dusk.
Makes one feel small, this. You realise that there is
much that you do not know, will never experience,
or ever have the pleasure of understanding.
I should learn to appreciate this more, I think.
Comments (2)
I AlwayS think this tOo! Behind every face is a vast life with its intricacies and emotion. But to us it’s just a face that passes by. Even people we know. We take them at face value. We don’t realise inside what’s truly going on.
not surprised, Shiv!
I imagine we’d have a conversation about this walking back from uni after class. I know we’ve had stranger ones for sure hahah.
Hope you are well, Mum. much love to you and your boys, both big and small xo