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 sprawing 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.
