sonder
i can't afford a diary, so this will have to do
i can't afford a diary, so this will have to do
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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Don't read too much into it.Posted December 9th, 2012 at 10:48 PM by Drakow 
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Why is this not on tumblr?Posted December 9th, 2012 at 10:51 PM by Razor Leaf 
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Or.. as the matrix tells us so.. muahahaPosted December 9th, 2012 at 10:55 PM by Kura
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This sounds really pretty but then you try to use it in a sentence and it's like..."I had a sonder last night", or what? That sounds pretty lame. >_oPosted December 10th, 2012 at 03:51 AM by Toujours
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I think it's supposed to be used somewhere along the lines of an adjective or a verb.Posted December 10th, 2012 at 07:56 AM by droomph
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This is the most beautiful profile pic ever!Posted February 22nd, 2013 at 12:25 AM by Hikari10
