Similar, but different - I am sometimes totally overcome with sonder, especially when passing a large residential building or flying over a city.
/Noun. sonder (uncountable) (neologism) The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it./
Same here. Perhaps the craziest bit is all the microinteractions that we have. For example, you and I may never interact other than in this one comment thread.
Oof, yep. Look at a stop sign. And think about all the lives of all the people through all the decades that sign has been standing there.
Each person connected to everyone else in a web of history.
Every single living being having a unique experience, every second of every day. Every inanimate object having a history that might span back through to the beginning of time. Lonely rocks floating through space for longer than we can even fathom.
Great word. When flying over a foreign country I like to look out the plane window at people driving on remote roads and wonder what they're like and what stories they have. Didn't realize there was a word for that.
/Noun. sonder (uncountable) (neologism) The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it./