Obscure Sorrows
- plata rasa
The lulling sound of a running dishwasher, whose steady maternal shushing somehow puts you completely at peace with not having circumnavigated anything solo.
Obscure Sorrows
- jouska
A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head - a crisp analysis, a devastating comeback, a cathartic heart-to-heart - which serves as a kind of psychological batting cage that feels far more satisfying than the small-ball strategies of everyday life.
Obscure Sorrows
- looseleft
Feeling a sense of loss upon finishing a good book, sensing the weight of the back cover locking away the lives of characters you've gotten to know so well.
Obscure Sorrows
- scabulous
Proud of a certain scar on your body, which is like an autograph signed to you by a world grateful for your continued willingness to play with her, even if it hurts.
Obscure Sorrows
- kairosclerosis
The moment you look around and realize that you're currently happy - consciously trying to savor the feeling - which prompts your intellect to identify it, pick it apart, and put it in context, where it will slowly dissolve until it's little more than an aftertaste.
obscuresorrows
- trumspringa
The longing to wander off your career track in pursuit of a simple life - tending a small farm in a forest clearing, keeping a lighthouse on a secluded atoll, or becoming a shepherd in the mountains - which is just the kind of hypnotic diversion that allows your thoughts to make a break for it and wander back to their cubicles in the city.
