
They carry on invisibly around you, bearing the accumulated weight of their own ambitions, friends, routines, mistakes, worries, triumphs and inherited craziness. Each living a life as vivid and complex as your own. Scattered a little further out, a network of acquaintances who drift in and out of contact over the years.īut there in the background, faint and out of focus, are the extras.

You're surrounded by your supporting cast: friends and family hanging in your immediate orbit. You are the main character-the protagonist-the star at the center of your own unfolding story. Follow the project, give feedback, suggest an emotion you need a word for, or just tell me about your day. Each original definition aims to fill a hole in the language-to give a name to emotions we all might experience but don’t yet have a word for. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a compendium of invented words written by John Koenig.

Narrated, written, directed, edited and coined by John Koenig. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. Sonder: The Realization That Everyone Has A Story sonder - n.
