Wednesday, June 24, 2015

sonder

sonder - n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

Why the heck is music so awesome? Like seriously, I get so inspired every time I hear it. In different contexts especially. 
Like just now, I imagine a story being told between two people across the globe. These two listen to the same radio station every day at the same hour. At this hour, anyone can request any song they like. These two people both request songs that reflect their own story, so they can express it to the other person. Instantaneously. A story is told. Now imagine this, the two people don't know each other at all. Each isn't aware of the others song request. However they both feel the emotion and story telling though music.

Bliss. 

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