Arilens
3 min readApr 7, 2018

Why Here And Why Not There?

I encountered a dictionary called “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” by John Koenig who also gave a TED Talk on his originally invented dictionary which has definitions of feelings that we are not able to describe.

One of the words grabbed my attention.

onism

n. the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.

Yes! The frustration of why here and why not there. When you are standing where you are now, sometimes you feel an urge to feel the feeling of standing at…