OT: Sonder
misterhub
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Sonder (from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows).
“Sonder 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 passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.”
“Sonder 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 passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.”
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I like that!
Thought provoking.0 -
I love that! And I agree with Gavin, very thought provoking!
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We are all so amazingly interconnected. Sometimes just background noise, but often more but invisible. Little happens on our own. Good to remember and with good coffee, to contemplate on. Might need a second cup.0
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I was not familiar with the word but the concept is interesting. I think about how every once in awhile you meet someone you know in a place you didn't expect. It makes me wonder how many of those 'ants' in the background I have a connection with but never realize it.0
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Wow! Consider that stolen, I'm going to use this word often.
I have a teenage granddaughter that needs to contemplate her relative place in the universe and how even a casual comment to (or from) others is directly proportional to their place in their universe.
This could help this good kid deal with the thoughtlessness of those around her.0
