Love this! How awe inspiring is the potential for connection with those outside our normal social circle? These small, random, often fleeting encounters remind us what it is to be human.
Beautiful post. Sondering is like macro empathy in some ways. What a great way to use a flight - make a great article based on great thoughts from the experience
"Sondering: The profound realization that every random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own, filled with their own stories, struggles, and history, even though they seem like background characters in your life."
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Which brings to mind this quote that was focused on NYC at the time but can be expanded.
“There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.”
---The ending statement in the 1960's TV program, The Naked City
I love this concept. It strikes me that this is also the crux the writing fiction: delving into the souls of all those around us.
That’s a good point on fiction. You really do have to get out of your brain to write good characters.
Love this! How awe inspiring is the potential for connection with those outside our normal social circle? These small, random, often fleeting encounters remind us what it is to be human.
Exactly right.
Beautiful post. Sondering is like macro empathy in some ways. What a great way to use a flight - make a great article based on great thoughts from the experience
Macro Empathy is a great way to put it.
But never forget:
“All life is full of suffering, pain, and sorrow.”
– Buddha
or to put it into a modern context:
This Ain't No Party... This Ain't No Disco... This Ain't No Foolin' Around"
-- Life During Wartime, Talking Heads (1979)
Lol. There is that!
"Sondering: The profound realization that every random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own, filled with their own stories, struggles, and history, even though they seem like background characters in your life."
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Which brings to mind this quote that was focused on NYC at the time but can be expanded.
“There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.”
---The ending statement in the 1960's TV program, The Naked City
I like that one.
I always get dizzy when I start thinking like that! 🤣🤣
It’s crazy huh?