Koinophobia: The Fear that You’ve Lived an Ordinary Life

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While you’re in it, life seems epic. Fiery, tenuous, and unpredictable. But once you have some distance from it, everything seems to shrink, until it’s almost out of focus. So you begin scanning your life looking for something interesting or beautiful. But all you see is ordinary people assembled in their tiny classrooms and work-spaces, each of us moving around in little steps, like tokens on a game board.

[Video and text source: Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows YouTube channel]