Adam Gessaman :crab: on Nostr: I attended a classmate's memorial service today. I was there because he was important ...
I attended a classmate's memorial service today. I was there because he was important to my life 25 years ago, but sitting there listening to people describing the life of someone I'd lost touch with years ago evoked a vivid feeling of sonder—"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". (
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/sonder)
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