Contemplative

n. The road-like reflection of the moon on water.... more

n. The feeling of butterflies in your stomach from something romantic or cute.... more

n. Sunlight filtering through tree leaves.... more

v. To fall out of love.... more

n. Weight gained from emotional overeating.... more

n. Gazing vacantly into the distance without thinking.... more

n. A witty comeback thought of too late.... more

n. Silent understanding between two people, both unwilling to act.... more

adj. Intuitively feeling that someone is a good person upon first meeting.... more

n. The euphoria of falling in love.... more

n. A second refill of coffee, or the third cup.... more

adj. Shocked upon noticing an obvious detail in something you see daily that you had never seen before.... more

n. Curiosity about the impact you've had on the lives of the people you know.... more

n. The degree to which your view of the world is warped by your own presence in it.... more

n. The awareness that you are not at home in the wilderness.... more

n. A long-overdue argument that shakes up a relationship, burning wildly through your issues.... more

n. The weird hollowness of trying to imagine the distant future.... more

n. The fear that you're no longer able to change.... more

n. The eeriness of places left behind.... more

n. An unassuming feature of our daily lives that will eventually seem bizarre in the future.... more

n. The unconscious habit of seeing someone as a representation of someone else, obscuring their true identity.... more

n. The habit of falling hard for a new acquaintance and imagining an elaborate future together.... more

n. The half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago.... more

adj. Wondering what our ancestors would think of all this.... more

adj. Anxiously excited to introduce a friend to something you think is amazing, only to cringe when flaws become apparent.... more

n. The weird loneliness of antiquated fads and memes and one-hit wonders.... more

n. The sense that you're more than the categories that society puts you in.... more

n. The feeling that everything you do is always somehow wrong.... more

n. The state of being so familiar with someone that you can be in a room with them without thinking or speaking.... more

n. The awareness of how little we really know.... more

adj. Feeling a vague longing for a distant monarch to simplify life's complexities.... more

n. The sense that your life doesn't fit into a story.... more

adj. Astonished to think back on the bizarre sequence of accidents that brought you to where you are today.... more

n. The poignant humanness beneath the spectacle of society.... more

n. The point in early adolescence when you realize that adults are no less lost and insecure than you.... more

n. Feeling torn between the life you want and the life you have.... more

n. The disillusionment of revisiting a pop-culture touchstone of your youth and finding that it hasn't aged well at all.... more

n. The desire to capture a fleeting experience.... more

n. A feeling of queasiness while offering advice, realizing the advice may not apply to the recipient's situation.... more

n. The anxiety of being an individual.... more

n. Nostalgia for a time you never experienced.... more

adj. Anxious to imagine how many times you must've barely avoided catastrophe.... more

n. The hidden vulnerability of others.... more

n. The brilliant artistry hidden all around you.... more

n. The mystery of what goes on behind the scenes of your social life.... more

n. The brooding delirium of being sick that makes time slow and tasks monumental struggles.... more

n. A moment that seemed insignificant at the time but led to a significant change in your life.... more

n. Vivid memories of a certain experience that may be disputed by others, leading to a reevaluation of one's worldview.... more

n. The ambiguous intensity of eye contact.... more

n. The disquieting awareness of mismatched importance in relationships.... more

n. The phenomenon of seeing a stranger when looking at your own reflection in the mirror.... more

adj. Wondering if you could leave without being noticed.... more

n. The art of dwelling on the past.... more

n. Fear experienced while leaving a loved one, uncertain if it will be the last time you see them.... more

n. The fear that originality is no longer possible.... more

n. An innocuous touch by someone just doing their job that you find more meaningful than you'd like to admit.... more

n. The haunting sense of mystery infused into certain random details that beckons you to wonder how it ended up here at this point in time.... more

n. The fear that your partner is changing in ways you don't understand, even though they might be changes for the better.... more

v. Trying to improve yourself in secret to avoid judgment or attention.... more

n. The sadness of never truly knowing what others think of you.... more

n. The frustration of being stuck inside your own head, unable to interpret how you are perceived by others.... more

n. A state of unease caused by excessive admiration, leading to doubts about one's true self.... more

n. The inability to determine the appropriate level of sympathy for one's situation.... more

n. Tray in chocolate box to fake two layers.... more

participial vb. Figuring out whodunnit while reading.... more

n. Time frowning at gallery pictures.... more

n. Unvisited restaurant near cinema.... more