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Watashiato

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Watashiato (n) – Curiosity about the impact you’ve had on the lives of the people you know, wondering which of your harmless actions or long-forgotten words might have altered the plot of their stories in ways you’ll never get to see.

~ Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Yugen

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Yugen (n) – An awareness of the universe that triggers emotional responses too deep and mysterious for words.

Yugen is that moment when you feel that deep, almost overwhelming sense of love, greatness, smallness and connection to everything that has, does and ever will exist that gives your being the seemingly wonderful and painful sense that all that you are feeling is too much for your mere human body to hold within.

~ Word Nerd / Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows