A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

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

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

Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

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

Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.

Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.

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

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

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

Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.

Vemödalen: The frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.

Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening

Ellipsism: A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out.

Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.

Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster – to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.

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

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

Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.

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

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

Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.

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.

Today a girl from my class told me she thought about me while buying her red bag because she noticed I like to wear bright colors. I was honestly surprised, because the two of us are not really close.

It’s strange how you sometimes realize that you’ve had an impact on someone. Even when you’re a quiet and introverted person, and you go out of your way to stay that way sometimes, people can still notice you. People who are like you. People who are different. People in general.

It’s so strange. Often I feel that if I were to die soon I wouldn’t have left a mark, but that’s actually not true. We leave marks without being aware of it. There’s always something about us that other people remember, and that will remind them of us when we’re out of their sight. It can be such a small detail, but at the end of the day, it’s the little details that make you memorable to the people who get used to seeing you in their lives.

Maybe I’ll never write a bestseller. Maybe I’ll never get to be in a movie. Maybe I’ll never get to make a revolutionary discovery, or come up with an original creation of any kind. Maybe I won’t leave a mark for the entire world to remember.

But in the meantime, I know that at least one person will remember that I like to wear bright colors.

So, to anyone who’s ever felt insignificant or unnoticed or forgotten - you’re not. Don’t think that, when you leave, you only leave an empty space that will soon be filled behind you. Your absence is actually made of little details that people remember about you. Someone might keep in mind one of the quirks you have. Another person might recall how excited you got that one time at that particular event. Someone else might remember that fandom shirt you like to wear and thought nobody had noticed.

And at least one person will think about how much they love you.

You’ve already left your mark. You do it with every person you meet.

You belong to this world like everyone else. You’re part of a big tapestry that’s woven together into tight waves of string. If you leave, maybe the big picture won’t change a great deal, but the strings closest to you will be loosened - and you’ll leave a hole. It might be small, but it’ll be there. You’ll be missed.

Always remember that even if you think the opposite during your darkest moments, you ARE significant.

You mean something.

but waiting a few minutes after they do so you don’t look like you were waiting for them

and trying not to stumble because you know everyone is watching you walk

and feeling really proud and relieved when you arrive back at your seat after having successfully thrown away an apple core like it’s a difficult task

Scientists discover most relaxing tune ever

Sound therapists and Manchester band Marconi Union compiled the song. Scientists played it to 40 women and found it to be more effective at helping them relax than songs by Enya, Mozart and Coldplay. Weightless works by using specific rhythms, tones, frequencies and intervals to relax the listener. A continuous rhythm of 60 BPM causes the brainwaves and heart rate to synchronise with the rhythm: a process known as ‘entrainment’. Low underlying bass tones relax the listener and a low whooshing sound with a trance-like quality takes the listener into an even deeper state of calm. Dr David Lewis, one of the UK’s leading stress specialists said: “‘Weightless’ induced the greatest relaxation – higher than any of the other music tested. Brain imaging studies have shown that music works at a very deep level within the brain, stimulating not only those regions responsible for processing sound but also ones associated with emotions.” The study - commissioned by bubble bath and shower gel firm Radox Spa - found the song was even more relaxing than a massage, walk or cup of tea. So relaxing is the tune, apparently, that people are being Rex advised against listening to it while driving. The top 10 most relaxing tunes were: 1. Marconi Union - Weightless 2. Airstream - Electra 3. DJ Shah - Mellomaniac (Chill Out Mix) 4. Enya - Watermark 5. Coldplay - Strawberry Swing 6. Barcelona - Please Don’t Go 7. All Saints - Pure Shores 8. AdelevSomeone Like You 9. Mozart - Canzonetta Sull’aria 10. Cafe Del Mar - We Can Fly

That’s what an angel is. Dust crushed into a diamond by the weight of this world.

- I thought I was losing my mind.