sonder

n.

The realisation that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own — 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.

Fleeting moments in the everyday;
the stillness between sips,
the soft murmur of voices rising and fading,
a shared glance with a stranger.

Here’s to those quiet moments.
A moment of pause, a moment to slow down, a moment to savour.

a sonder moment in Tokyo