When I was younger, It was so much stronger. I didn't know how to talk about it with other people, but whenever anything referred to It, it'd always strike me as something very significant.
It's nice to know that others feel this and talk about it too. Sehnsucht.
Actually, as a kid, almost every waking moment was spent with that feeling in mind. I lived with the hope of someday getting out of this place and going to wherever it was that I was meant to be or something like that. Then, as it became vaguer, this might sound stupid, but I felt like I was dying inside. I still remember what my friend who, at the time, wanted to be an explorer said to me (aged 10) "Every time I look over there, I wonder what's over those hills."
Who knows what it is. Some people talk of nostalgia, of sehnsucht, of "holes in their souls," of searching for something, a purpose. I think it's all the same thing. Maybe it's to do with the way most of us live our lives nowadays.
Is it normal to feel "sehnsucht?"
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When I was younger, It was so much stronger. I didn't know how to talk about it with other people, but whenever anything referred to It, it'd always strike me as something very significant.
It's nice to know that others feel this and talk about it too. Sehnsucht.
Actually, as a kid, almost every waking moment was spent with that feeling in mind. I lived with the hope of someday getting out of this place and going to wherever it was that I was meant to be or something like that. Then, as it became vaguer, this might sound stupid, but I felt like I was dying inside. I still remember what my friend who, at the time, wanted to be an explorer said to me (aged 10) "Every time I look over there, I wonder what's over those hills."
Who knows what it is. Some people talk of nostalgia, of sehnsucht, of "holes in their souls," of searching for something, a purpose. I think it's all the same thing. Maybe it's to do with the way most of us live our lives nowadays.