SONDER
I’ve always found ground floors interesting, you can clearly see their home and what they are doing, as If they are lab rats in cages. I look and wonder “What are they doing right now, what are they thinking right now?” A warmth I cant describe fills my body, I just want to sit and watch them for a couple of minutes but that would disturb them. I recently learned a new word: Sonder. Have you ever sat in a crowded place and watched everyone around you minding their business? Not just watching but also asking yourself “What are they doing or thinking?” too. Thats what Sonder is: The feeling one has on realizing that every other individual one sees has a life as full and real as one’s own, in which they are the central character and others, including oneself, have secondary or insignificant roles.
In a state of sonder, each of us is at once a hero, a supporting cast member, and an extra in overlapping stories.
Isn’t this a weird feeling? You're the main character of your story but a side character of others. Even a passerby on someone else's story. Life, is just another complexity human brain cannot and never will understand and this essence itself alone makes life worth living and deem it intriguing.
The next time you are alone in a crowded place, think about this: Observe people, imagine their lives and what they are going through. Thats what life is, understand and live fully.
*: About the painting, Hopper clearly shows the loneliness of humans in the modern age, such a classic masterpiece that awakens unfelt emotions before. Definitely a painter worth exploring and learning about him farther, maybe I'll examine him and his works one day also.
03/03/2024
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