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The Weight of Being One Among Many
<p>SONDER</p><p><br/></p><p>Oxford describes it as the profound feeling of realizing that everyone, Including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.</p><p><br/></p><p>But....</p><p><br/></p><p>What do you mean I'm not the main character?</p><p><br/></p><p>What do you mean other people go through different phases too?</p><p><br/></p><p>What do you mean everyone is just as special as me?</p><p><br/></p><p>What do you mean the world doesn't revolve around me?</p><p><br/></p><p>What do you mean my family and friends aren't side characters?</p><p><br/></p><p>These were the questions I asked when I first realized this.</p><p><br/></p><p>Now I ask:</p><p><br/></p><p>If everyone has feelings, dreams, and regrets, do I have to consider them all?</p><p><br/></p><p>For a long time, I thought I was the only one who felt deeply. Everyone else was just background noise.</p><p><br/></p><p>To be honest, I still can't come to terms with it.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not because I think I'm better than them.</p><p><br/></p><p>On the contrary, I know that so many people are superior to me.</p><p>My problem is, I think I'm more important.</p><p><br/></p><p>Yes, I have Main Character Syndrome.</p><p><br/></p><p>That is why it's so hard to come to terms with Sonder</p><p><br/></p><p>But if everyone is living their own story, what does that mean for mine especially as a Christian?</p><p><br/></p><p>Philippians 2:3 says, "Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves."</p><p><br/></p><p>In context, Paul was telling us to be more like Christ.</p><p><br/></p><p>So as a Christian, I had to curb that syndrome.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because of the Love I have for Christ, 1 had to come to terms with Sonder.</p><p><br/></p><p>Now when I see strangers, I wonder what chapter they're in not whether I'm in theirs.</p><p><br/></p><p>Sondertaught me humility. Christ taught me love. Together, they taught me I was never</p><p><br/></p><p>the only story being written.</p>
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