Words I'll Never Say

{30} 20 Emotions

20 emotions people feel but can't explain :

1. Sonder: the realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.

2. Opia: the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.

3. Monachopsis: the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

4. Énouement: the bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.

5. Vellichor: the strange wistfulness of used bookshops.

6. Rubatosis: the unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.

7. Kenopsia: the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.

8. Mauerbauertraurigkeit: the inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.

9. Jouska: a hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.

10. Chrysalism: the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.

11. Ellipsism: a sadness that you'll never be able to know how history will turn out.

12. Kuebiko: a state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.

13. Lachesism: the desire to be struck by disaster - to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.

14. Exulansis: the tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.

15. Adronitis: frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.

16. Nodus Tollens: the realization that the plot of your life doesn't make sense to you anymore.

17. Onism: the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.

18. Liberosis: the desire to care less about things.

19. Altschmerz: weariness with the same old issues that you've always had - the same boring flaws and anxieties that you've been gnawing on for years.

20. Occhiolism: the awareness of the smallness of your perspective.

Comment the number(s) of the emotion(s) you've been through!