Sonder.
n. the realisation that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own – populated with their own ambition, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness – an epic story that continues invisably around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborated 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.
FOR THOSE WHO TRY TO GET BACK:
FADE IN >
BIRDS EYE VIEW, ANGLE DROP FROM SKY, THROUGH CLOUDS.
- – Man Hitchhiking, hood up, headphones in, on the side of the road, Dark Green Hills, 1 or 2 houses, Pale yellow road.
Zoom in on face. – THE ABUSING OF THE RIB PIANO RIFF
Camera pan to Thumb sticking out
Three cars pass by, First car splashes him with a puddle.
CAR PULLS UP AT A WHITE FARMHOUSE
CAR DROPS MAN OFF AT A QUIET HOSTEL HE WALKS UPTO IT.
THE KITCHEN, CUTTING CHEESE. SHE WALKS IN THROUGH THE DOOR
AS THEY MAKE EYE CONTACT, HE FALLS INTO HER PUPIL.
ABSOLUTE DARKNESS, HE RUNS TOWARDS A DIRECTION, BLUE DOT EMERGES IN THE DISTANCE, STARS APPEAR AT SIDE. HE RUNS FASTER AND FASTER, UNTIL HE TRIES TO PUT HIS BRAKES ON.
HE CRASHES INTO EARTH.
WAKES UP IN A CAVE IN THE DESERT.
The caretaker fell in love with wisdom.
& on the west coast of Mexico
he sensed a hurricane approach.
In the attempt to slip into his dream
he realised a universe paralled to his own,
he fought to keep his foot in the door,
Babylon apparently will fall,
& the fallen won’t notice
or maybe he thought,
with reality on its knife edge,
we are an incredible force of self-awareness.
Free will is the being of God.
embodied through time.
Infinite through space.
Momo
Raised by the Samurai
Mastered all disciplines of life
Half of his face was tattooed black
A poet
could crush rocks with his hands
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