"Maybe we should think of memory itself as a work of art--and a work of art is never finished, only abandoned."
From The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
I'm relating to so much of these that it makes me wonder how neurotic I really am. Such as:
exulansis
n. 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.
Check it out... it's a rabbit hole. I support whole-heartedly the effort of naming the minor melancholies that we all feel but don't often have the proper poetry to give voice to...
I've been meaning to make a post with some of my favorites from this site. It's really an extraordinary project.
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