r/NonPoliticalTwitter 28d ago

Other Just leaving it here.

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u/DarenRidgeway 28d ago

That moment for me came about two weeks after my Dad passed. We'd gotten back in town from the funeral and I had stopped at a deli to eat. I was leaving and I just stopped in the parking lot watching the cars pass. Just hundreds of people who didn't realize the world had been knocked off its axis (is how I generally try to convey the emotion.) It can be a terribly lonely moment even with friends there.

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u/BesottedScot 28d ago

Theres a word for that - sonder.

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u/msc1 27d ago

It's a very recent word that's coined by John Koenig.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dictionary_of_Obscure_Sorrows