sonder

n. realisation that everyone has a story, so rich and complex
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

"I love you as one loves certain obscure things,/secretly, between the shadow and the soul."
Pablo Neruda, One Hundred Love Sonnets:XVII

keyframe
n. a moment that seemed innocuous at the time but ended up marking a diversion into a strange new era of your life—set in motion not by a series of jolting epiphanies but by tiny imperceptible differences between one ordinary day and the next 
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,/But I have promises to keep."
Robert Frost, Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening

"To look up-out,/ To do without./ To be now-here,/Stop inward peer."

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