The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it-whether through envy or pity or simple foreignness-which allows it to drift away from the rest of your life story, until the memory itself feels out of place, almost mythical, wandering restlessly in the fog, no longer even looking for a place to land. 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 that 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 following are some of the words that Koenig created under 'The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows', along with the verbatim meanings he has attributed for the same: Sonder They were not necessarily intended to be used in conversation, but to exist for their own sake to give a semblance of order to a dark continent, so you can settle it yourself on your own terms, without feeling too lost-safe in the knowledge that we’re all lost,” the dictionary’s website says. It currently exists in the form of a website and a YouTube channel, though the website says that a book encompassing the dictionary’s words can be expected soon. This was until Koenig, a video editor, public speaker, and narrator from Minnesota, composed The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, coining beautiful words that henceforth sprang to life emotions and feelings that have been whirling around us in its indecipherable forms.
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, an internet project which is a compendium of invented words written by John Koenig, aims to fill this hole in the language by according words to emotions we all might have experienced, but which have long evaded the grasp of the English language lexicon.īy not having a word for it, these emotions and feelings have remained obscured, perhaps hovering on the periphery of our consciousness, but never really being acknowledged as something that would need any form of existence or articulation. Ever wondered about those emotions which are beyond articulation, making us wonder if we did indeed experience them or if it were just a fleeting figment of our imagination?
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