Channel: Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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Description: THE BOOK IS HERE, with hundreds of new definitions: bit.ly/3z1RYvH Available in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook (read by the author). ETYMOLOGY Greek kudos, "glory, praise" + clasm, "breaking down." THE DICTIONARY OF OBSCURE SORROWS dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com Email the author: obscuresorrows@gmail.com Facebook facebook.com/pages/The-Dictionary-of-Obscure-Sorrows/137197489655526 Twitter @ObscureSorrows twitter.com/obscuresorrows The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a compendium of invented words written by John Koenig. Each original definition aims to fill a hole in the language—to give a name to emotions we all might experience but don't yet have a word for. WHAT IS THAT MUSIC? "A Pure Spirit" by Simon Arthur Rhodes "Strangeness and Charm" by Nick Bardoni & Stephen Dominic Warr "Humming Birds" by Simon Arthur Rhodes TRANSCRIPT You were born with your head in the clouds, your future wide open, feeling almost weightless. Almost. Kudoclasm. You had dreams even before you had memories: a cloud of fantasies and ambitions of secret plans and hidden potential, visions of who you are, and what your life will be. They keep your spirits high, floating somewhere above your life, where the world looks faintly hypothetical, almost translucent. But every time you reach for the sky and come away with nothing, you start to wonder what’s holding them up. “Surely it would have happened by now?!” You feel time starting to slip, pulling you back down to earth. even as you tell yourself, don’t look down. You don’t have the luxury of floating through life, because you may not have the time. The future is already rushing toward you, and it’s not as far away as you think. It feels like your life is flashing before your eyes, but it’s actually just the opposite: you’re thinking forward, to everything you still haven’t done, the places you had intended to visit, the life goals you’d eventually get around to, some day in the future. You start dropping your delusions one by one, like tossing ballast overboard. And soon the fog lifts, and everything becomes clear— right until the moment your feet touch the ground. And there it is, “the real world.” As if you’ve finally grown up, steeped in reality, your eyes adjusting to the darkness, seeing the world for what it is. But in truth, you don’t belong there. We dream to survive— no more optional than breathing. Maybe “the real world” is just another fantasy, something heavy to push back against, and launch ourselves still higher. We’re all afraid to let go, of falling into a bottomless future. But maybe we belong in the air, tumbling in the wind. Maybe it’s only when you dive in that you pick up enough speed to shape the flow of reality, and choose your own course, flying not too high, and not too low, but gliding from one to the other in long playful loops. To dream big, and bounce ideas against the world and rise again. Moving so fast, you can’t tell where the dream ends and where the world begins. CREDITS Vimeo.com Creative Commons Attribution License Slaves to freedom by Olivier Baillon Dancing fog by Christophe Tauziet Cloud Skimming by Kenneth Crawford Some Cloud Action at Faget (Part 1) by Bans Volkan Sara Above the mist by Sander van Schie De Verfilmer Flock & Dock 8.0 - the Whole Big Long Video of the Whole Event by Skwrl Productions eYecam test by eYecam test Clouds # 02 Barcelona by Everyman Production London - Breathe by V-Emotion Pieces by Pete Ivanecky Ultimate Vietnam Adventure by Claude lee Sadik Day is Done by Chained Monster Love Story Engagement Paola & Kelvin by Alexavier Lopez Crescent by Andrew Curtis Naked Kids by Steven Alan Graduation Day by Jamin Tasker 2012 December 21st by Tinkering With Time Saison 2013 - Skydiving by Armand Nicolas Covadonga Freefly by Aviora Freefly Angleweek 2013 by Dave Rhea One Big Circle by Steven Alan Naked Kids by Steven Alan A Strange Sort of Mysticism by Michael Masterson Gesir by Conor Cark Week 2013 by Aviora Freefly Navidad en Trevelin by AeroTechno FPV-Argentina.com Brento 3-way by Brian SD Flembaz - Empire (Forged by VuAir and Quick Feet) by Flembaz 2-way wingsuit jump off Exit 4 at Kjerag by Brian SD Zug - A aerial view on the medieval part of the beautiful Swiss town by Riot Media [airfilm] demoreel by Tophelicam Vaux's Swifts _ Chapman Elementary 2011 by Pushkill Dirty Inputs - Solid Star by Dirty Inputs The Murmurs of Jamnagar by Vijay Shah