SONDER April A to Z

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Sonder:   in French it means to probe or survey and as such, it could be the basis for the definition above which came from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, a very interesting Tumblr in its own right.

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.

Sonder is a vital part of the internet and blogs, a vital part of all authors who write about other people.  As we all live in our own worlds it is important to look around us and try to understand that we are just one individual who makes up just one small part of the world, whole.

Columbia University

Elon University, NC

... the realization that every person has the same amount of complexity and vibrancy as everybody else.