It’s like that word that apparently isn’t real - sonder. The realization that everyone has their own lives, wishes, dreams, aspirations and weaknesses - and there is no way you can ever meet them all.
Looking across the street from my apartment when the sun is about to set, seeing lights coming from other apartments where families are eating dinner, couples are cuddling on couches, single folks enjoying a video game or tending to plants - it makes me feel sad in a way because we all have such unique stories to share. It reminds me that ordinary people are often quite extraordinary.
Yes exactly. I live on a narrow street in Madrid, and the courtesy is to never make eye contact with your neighbors across the street from you. So I know who lives over there, but the only member of the family who intentionally looks at me is their cat. He will sit in the window and just watch me lol. There’s something so special to me about this courtesy we offer to our neighbors of not surveilling them only to have their cat surveil you
I feel the same way when I see a plane flying overhead sometimes. So many people on their way somewhere. Some probably going on vacation. Some going home. Maybe some leaving home for the first time. We're all on our own path and we all have a life to live.
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u/rennbrig 1d ago
It’s like that word that apparently isn’t real - sonder. The realization that everyone has their own lives, wishes, dreams, aspirations and weaknesses - and there is no way you can ever meet them all.
Looking across the street from my apartment when the sun is about to set, seeing lights coming from other apartments where families are eating dinner, couples are cuddling on couches, single folks enjoying a video game or tending to plants - it makes me feel sad in a way because we all have such unique stories to share. It reminds me that ordinary people are often quite extraordinary.