Shloky :)

Shloky turns 10 months!

kaaa kaa kaa kaaaa ka, go faster. Even more faster. I said faster!! 

Yaaaaaaaay!

I have two teeth. 

I can bite anything. 

Your finger, your nail.

Your hand, your hair.

Anything!!

Who's that girl?? *beaming smile*

That's a Sub by the way.

Smiles are contagious. :)

Do you fall in love with words?

Do you fall in love with words?
I do. :)
Suddenly reading about something, somewhere, I stumble upon a string of alphabets, tied together in a way that stops my breath for a brief moment. This generally doesn't happen quite often. Very rare.

It's like, a single word can sum up all I've been yearning to put together for quite sometime. It's when so many stories running in my head in parallel paths come to a standstill, when I get to call all of them by one single name. All of a sudden, when I encounter a word that aptly describes what I've been wanting to name all the while, it stops. It (my breath) stops for a brief moment, there's a sense of unknown relief that hovers all over me. It's like naming a thought that's been a part of me for so long. 

And the word is
Sonder.

I've been pondering at regular intervals about it for so long, only never realised it has a name. Well, it's not recognised by the Oxford lexicographers. Yet, whatever description I've found with the help of google uncle, swept me off my feet!

It says - "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 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."  

The above breathlessness can absolutely be related to the elation I've experienced on the sight of this word. When I first read the description I'm like - Yes! Yes! Yes! I've experienced similar stories run between my two ears all the while. Each time I go past busy streets, all I noticed are walking 'stories', inumerable stories with human heads. Previously and even now, I continue to appreciate the co-existence of such dissimilarities ( until now, keeping it only to myself) , I never tried naming them though. It's a feeling, an absolutely pleasant one. 


The moment I realised the sync,  an unknown voice started talking to me - It said, "This is what I've been trying to communicate to you, your thoughts aren't directionless, they mean something, and a person who shared a similar thought has coined a name for it.  You have a mind friend. " -  meaning - there lived a person who shared a thought similar to mine without the either of us knowing each other. :D Awesome, right?!

Sonder : The realisation that everyone has a story. 

P.S - This word is coined by John Koenig, the author of 'The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows'.

P.P.S - Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a lexicon of emotions we don't have words for.