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 invisibility 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.
The sonder of it all
by franzimash October 29, 2020
Get the Sonder mug.Briefly, "the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own." Originally from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, which has a lot more beautiful neologism definitions like this you might enjoy.
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by sondria January 3, 2008
Get the sondy mug.A musical theater composer and lyricist, known for such works as Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Sunday in the Park with George, among many many others. He is widely regarded as a genius, for his extremely clever lyrics and inner-rhyming trickery.
I just saw Sweeney Todd, and it was the most brilliant and creepy thing I've ever witnessed. Stephen Sondheim is a genius.
by Benjamin Barker July 7, 2006
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also a very talented, intelligent women, whom makes the world a better place just with her mere existence!
also a very talented, intelligent women, whom makes the world a better place just with her mere existence!
"wooh did you see that shondra last night it lite up the whole sky"
"Shondra is always helping out the people in need"
"Shondra is always helping out the people in need"
by let life live December 16, 2011
Get the Shondra mug.A native of Wisconsin who devotes their life to the Packers, deer hunting, pickup trucks, and country music. Sometimes these creatures can be difficult to spot due to their camouflaged attire, but the cargo shorts and cutoffs are a dead give away. Some claim to be light beer connoisseurs, and many fancy themselves as cheese experts. Rarely seen outside of their small towns or farms.
After a long day of cow milking, the scondog cracked open and put on the packers game.
Upon completion of their pilgrimage to the promised land, Green Bay, the scondogs guzzled an entire case of miller lite before the pregame even started.
Upon completion of their pilgrimage to the promised land, Green Bay, the scondogs guzzled an entire case of miller lite before the pregame even started.
by Constellation Crew January 31, 2018
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may also be used as 'giving arse/ass sondies'
term derives from the horrible sweaty damp smell you get wearing old Sondico goalkeeper gloves in football
may also be used as 'giving arse/ass sondies'
term derives from the horrible sweaty damp smell you get wearing old Sondico goalkeeper gloves in football
"Did u give her some sondies?"
"I saw this lad giving sondies in the cubicle"
"I saw Andy giving arse sondies"
"I saw this lad giving sondies in the cubicle"
"I saw Andy giving arse sondies"
by belterchild December 21, 2009
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