23 Emotions: Sonder

The pavement is wet.

Sodium orange reflections sparkle up at me.

Golden squares hover, head hight.

Intimate.

Warm.

Damp Air's fingers play at my neck.

Oneness.

Always.

Sonder, my ever companion.

Come.

Walk (again) with me, tonight.

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...