Sonder

 "New York City at Night." Iwallpaperfive. N.p., n.d. Web. 
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SONDER

I’m sitting in traffic that may last about two kilometers. Large groups of pedestrians are walking across the streets, sidewalks, or entering or exiting buildings. A homeless man finds a place to rest for the night, setting up his new temporary home. I can see distant planes that are taking off from the terminal. Each and every one of these ‘passer-bys’ that I have witnessed walk, drive, or fly away from my view, are living as brilliant and complex lives as mine, maybe even more. This realization occurs to me every time I reach this lively area of the city. All around me is a never ending story of people with their own ambitions, routines and all around craziness. This epic story, like a web, may be never ending, and yet it forms connections in the most unthinkable ways. These lives that I see every day only appear to be an extra of my own story, just like I am an extra to theirs. I’m an addition to someone else’s view every second, from the casual passer-by in the sidewalk, or to the flicker of a light in the night sky as a plane soars above millions of more lives.