sonder
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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