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psychology  ·  3217 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do you ever think about how different your day is versus someone elses?

Whenever this line of thought crosses my mind it always ends up consuming hours of my day. I find it so bizarre that when I drive down the highway I'm passing thousands of people with their own individual perceptions and experiences in life. Each person passing me in their car in wrapped up in their own thoughts, problems, and experience completely different from my own. I always try to wrap my head around the idea of 7 billion individuals each seeing the world in a different way, and I almost always need up with a bit of a headache. I feel like one of the only regrets I'll have in life is that I'll only be able to live it from one point of view. It's tragic and beautiful in a way.



user-inactivated  ·  3217 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This has a name:

sonder - (n.) the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.

Here's an interesting video about it:

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