Waldosia
n. Searching for faces in a crowd where they have no reason to be a part of. As if hoping to see whether they are still woven into the fabric of our lives.
Sonder
n. The realization that every person, even those passing by on the street, has a life as intricate and complex as one's own. Even though we may never fully grasp it. That they each carry their own story, with dreams, struggles, and experiences unique to them. Yet often hidden from us.
Enouement
n. The poignance of getting to the future and witnessing it unfold, unable to share the perception gained from your past.
Nodus Tollens
n. The jolting realization that the flow of your life no longer aligns with the storyline you once thought you were following. Despite your efforts to trace the arc of the plot, you find yourself overwhelmed in bewildering routes, seemingly from different genres altogether. This compels you to revisit the chapters you hurriedly skimmed over, only to unveil that all along, your journey was meant to be a “choose your own adventure” tale.
Watashiato
n. The quiet curiosity that ponders the ripple effect of your presence in the lives of those you hold dear. You find yourself musing over the possibility that your seemingly innocuous actions or forgotten words may have quietly reshaped the narrative of their stories, leaving an ineradicable mark that remains unseen to your eyes.
Etterath
n. The emptiness that accompanies a lengthy and challenging journey, whether it's completing school, recovering from surgery, or returning home after your wedding. You feel the relief that it's all done and a sense of longing for the stress that once structured your life, guiding you like a mission.
Agnosthesia
n. The state of feeling uncertain about your true emotions, which forces you to sift through clues hidden in your behavior, as if you were some other person—noticing a twist of acid in your voice, an obscene amount of effort put into something inconsequential, or an unexplained heaviness weighing you down, making it hard to get out of bed.
Onism
n. The frustration of being limited to one body and one place at a time, comparable to staring at the departures board in 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—and all because, as the arrow on the map helpfully points out, you are here.
From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows; https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/
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