Escaping Sonder

TED talker John Koenig is on a mission "to find holes in the language of emotion and…fill them so that we have a way of talking about the human condition."1 His efforts caught my ear when he invented and defined the word sonder: "the awareness that everyone has a story," that the random passersby around us each have their own, rich emotional experiences, and that we may never know what those are. The word connotes a sense of melancholy, like a longing to be a part of, if not to know, the stories of others.

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