I ran across this quote the other day and it has really stuck with me.
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.
Because of the interactions here on G+, there are so many of you who are not just random passersby or forever unknown to me. Maybe we will still never be more than blips in each other's streams, partners in silly conversations, or brief hangout buddies. Or, maybe we will become lifelong friends as I know to be true of some of you already. Maybe we will meet in real life, as has also already happened for me and I plan to meet others as soon as we are able. If G+ were to disappear tomorrow, I would be sad to lose out on friendships still being cultivated and the potential for more that I have not even started. If the people I have become close with through this medium were to disappear, it would be a loss akin to a meteor strike at my family reunion. Things would never be the same. Thank you to all of you for enriching my time not just online, but on this planet.
Credits: I ran across the image containing the quote searching for something else entirely; I do not remember what but it was probably something to use in a Photoshop mash-up to punk +Dirk Reul in a #gplususermashup . 😉 From what I can tell, the quote comes from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/sonder
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