The Little Things (Vol. 3)

23

There are 23 emotions that people feel, but cannot explain.

Sonder is the realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.

Opia is the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.

Monachopsis is the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

Énouement is the bitter sweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.

Vellichor is the strange wistfulness of used bookshops.

Rubatosis is the unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.

Kenopsia is the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.

Mauerbauertraurigkeit is the inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.

Jouska is a hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.

Chrysalism is the amniotic tranquility of bing indoors during a thunderstorm.

Vemödalen is the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photographs already exist.

Anecdoche is a conversation in which everyone is talking, but no one is listening.

Ellipsism is a sadness that you'll never be able to know how history will turn out.

Kuebiko is a state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.

Lachesism is the desire to be struck by disaster- to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.

Adronitis is a frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.

Rückkehrunruhe is the feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.

Nodus Tollens is the realization that the plot of your life doesn't make sense to you anymore.

Onism is the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.

Liberosis is the desire to care less about things.

Altschemerz is the weariness with the same old issues that you've always had- the same boring flaws and anxieties that you've been gnawing on for years.

Occhiolism is the awareness of the smallness of your perspective.