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.
For you that are on a safe distance from Scandinavia I can tell you that it is right now a very cold, rainy and dreary place. If you add on to that the fact that you think you bombed the job interview and some other stuff, you realize that shopping therapy is in order.
No, I didn’t go to H&M, I said I wouldn’t so I didn’t! No, it is not a new bag, even though I always need one of those. This time it is something very season oriented and absolutely required for the coming trip to Norway.
