Sonder: The Definition And What It Means To Me

Hey, hello, how you doing?! It's been awhile since I last updated my blog but there's an interesting topic that I'd like to talk about today. It's called "sonder" ; the urban dictionary defines it as " the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own" . The word itself was found by myself from one the many people that I follow on Twitter, who had a picture of the word and it's definition over a gray skyline.


When I saw this word and read it's definition I was surprised that there was a word that encapsulated how I felt when I was on a street or in a dark room with many people. It's so amazing to see what amazing work God has done and how's he's sewn our lives together. For example, a woman's random act of kindness could inspire other random acts that could stretch as far as helping children in Africa that could someday become the next great scientist who discovers the cure for all cancers and helps the world to become less sorrow-filled. 

To me, sonder is the awareness of humanity, that someone else is living their life everyday; that they have a conscience, that they struggle and have humanity in them as well. Sonder captures everything that I've ever felt about the the human race which makes this word so special to me. 







http://m.urbandictionary.com/#define?term=sonder

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