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Sonder.
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You are the main character.
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The protagonist.
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The star at the center of your own unfolding story.
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You're surrounded by your supporting cast:
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friends and family hanging in your immediate orbit.
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Scattered a little further out, a network of acquaintances
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who drift in and out of contact over the years.
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But there in the background, faint and out of focus,
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are the extras.
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The random passersby.
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Each living a life as vivid and complex as your own.
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They carry on invisibly around you,
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bearing the accumulated weight of their own ambitions,
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friends,
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routines,
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mistakes,
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worries,
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triumphs and
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inherited craziness.
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When your life moves on to the next scene, theirs flickers in place,
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wrapped in a cloud of backstory and inside jokes
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and characters strung together with countless other stories that you'll never be able to see.
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That you'll never know exists.
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In which you might appear only once.
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As an extra sipping coffee in the background.
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As a blur of traffic passing on the highway.
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As a lighted window at dusk.
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High Intermediate
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Art & Culture
sonder - n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. Narrated, written, directed, edited and coined by John Koenig.
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