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Sonder: The Realization That Everyone Has a Story
Sonder is defined as that moment when you realize that everyone around you has an internal life as rich and as conflicted as yours.
Seth Godin • This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See
My new favorite word: sonder.
It's the profound awareness that every person you encounter has experienced a lifetime of hopes, fears, loves, and heartaches that you'll never know.
Each moment of sonder is a reminder to appreciate how little we truly grasp about others' lives. https://t.co/E3eJFjFoUc
Encounters with strangers can be a humbling reminder of the vastness of the world and of each other, the impossible-feeling truth that each one of us contains an entire universe of inner life and a singular perspective, that as a species we have an incredible capacity for kindness, cruelty, courage and creativity.