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.
Notes:
We are the background characters in other's lives.
Folksonomies: perspective loneliness
Taxonomies:
/family and parenting/children (0.129680)
Keywords:
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Concepts:
English-language films (0.918857): dbpedia
2000s music groups (0.721961): dbpedia
1990s music groups (0.709817): dbpedia
Epic poetry (0.627417): dbpedia | freebase
Alternative rock (0.609150): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc | yago
Grunge (0.588394): dbpedia | freebase
Dictionary of Obscure SorrowsSchemas
Our Place in the Cosmos
Memes illustrating where humans fit in the Universe. Memes about perspective.
