onism
that sudden dreadful realization that you are you, and only you, and stuck in your body and you're not omniscient and the universe is filled with other people just like that but you still can't live their lives and they can't live yours.
"which is like standing in front of the departures screen at an airport, flickering over with strange place names like other people’s passwords, each representing one more thing you’ll never get to see before you die" - as taken from the dictionary of obscure sorrows.
"which is like standing in front of the departures screen at an airport, flickering over with strange place names like other people’s passwords, each representing one more thing you’ll never get to see before you die" - as taken from the dictionary of obscure sorrows.
"Oh damn. I'm...I'm me. And I'm limited to stay here. Look at all these people whose shoes I'll never be able to walk in. Look at all the lives I'm never going to live."
"damn, that's some severe onism right there."
"damn, that's some severe onism right there."
onism by PiggyStardust February 25, 2019
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