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- wabi-sabi (japanese): world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. the aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete." / the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete, the antithesis of our classical western notion of beauty as something perfect, enduring, and monumental.
- l'appel du vide (french): literally "the call of the void" is a French phrase used to refer to intellectual suicidal thoughts, or the urge to engage in self-destructive (suicidal) behaviors during everyday life.
- kintsugi (japanese): art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique. as a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
- saudade (portuguese): a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves.
- hiraeth (welsh): a homesickness for a home you can't return to, or that never was. / homesickness tinged with grief or sadness over the lost or departed. It is a mix of longing, yearning, nostalgia, wistfulness, or an earnest desire (similar to saudade).
- serendipity (english): luck that takes the form of finding valuable or pleasant things that are not looked for.
- syzygy (english): a straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies in a gravitational system.
- oblivion (english): a state of being unaware of what is happening around you.
- sonder (english): the realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.
- torschlusspanik (german): fear of having less oportunities as you get older.
- auerbauertraurigkeit(german) : the inexpicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.
- anecdoche: a conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening.
- altschmerz (german): weariness with the same old issues that you've always had - the same boring flaws and anxieties that you've been gnawing on for years.
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