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
Sonder is realizing that you aren't the main character of the world, and that others have a life just like yours.
by StayedNateman February 25, 2022
The realization that everyone around you has a life outside of yours, complete with their own thoughts, feelings, and emotions. You could potentially be just a passing figure on the street to them.
by shrek's Wife November 20, 2012
n. Pseudophilosophical guff memetically spread by the tumblr blog "The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows". No academic grounding whatsoever, can be figured out through common sense.
by Ma1nFr4me May 28, 2013
The universal primal diversions of that which abolishes the hilt of the sword of anger unleashinf forth from its wings the waves of time.
by culbocfromsuty October 23, 2016
by Ase123 December 11, 2020