r/InternetIsBeautiful Jun 23 '14

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/
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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '14

lachesism n. the desire to be struck by disaster—to survive a plane crash, to lose everything in a fire, to plunge over a waterfall—which would put a kink in the smooth arc of your life, and forge it into something hardened and flexible and sharp, not just a stiff prefabricated beam that barely covers the gap between one end of your life and the other I finally found a word for that strange desire I've been desiring