Sonder — My favorite word.

Image description: Kelsey on the corner of a busy intersection in Brooklyn, New York, legs crossed in camel tan skinny jeans and black ankle boots. Her face resting on her hand, she smiles a big red-lipped smile at strangers passing by.

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.

It all matters.

Big love,

KP