Identity

adj. Pouring yourself wholeheartedly into something with creativity and love.... more

n. The time needed to eat a banana.... more

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

v. Traveling for the journey rather than the destination.... more

n. A person with constant bad luck.... more

n. Hope to die before a loved one to avoid living without them.... more

n. Someone who only takes warm showers, implying they're a wimp.... more

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

n. A dreamer or impractical person.... more

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

n. The point in your mid-twenties when accountability for your own station in life sets in.... more

adj. Finding a person so attractive it actually kinda pisses you off.... more

n. A kind of mistake you wouldn't take back even if you could.... more

n. The feeling of loss for not meeting someone before their death, leading to an attempt to know them through stories and memories.... more

adj. Feeling wistful upon encountering a past love and realizing the changed significance of familiar gestures.... more

adj. Frustrated that you can't force yourself to remember something, even though it's right on the tip of your tongue.... more

adj. Feeling uneasy when socializing with incompatible groups of people.... more

adj. Feeling guilty for prioritizing personal concerns over global issues.... more

adj. Awed at the impact someone has had on your life, feeling intimidated by how profoundly they helped shape your identity.... more

n. A person who has no idea where their home is, leaving their emotional compass free to swing wildly as they move from place to place.... more

n. Regret at having cracked the code of something, leading to a desire to forget the pattern.... more

n. A person embodying your worst traits, serving as a negative role model.... more

n. A conversational hint indicating a personal insight without further elaboration.... more

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

n. The moment of realization that your ideal future self will not materialize, leaving you to take on the role yourself.... more

v. Compulsively turning away from works of art that are frustratingly good.... more

n. An itchy sense of dread when life feels just a hint too peaceful.... more

n. The strange wistfulness of used bookstores, infused with the passage of time.... more

n. An important part of your personality that remains hidden from others.... more

n. A place that seems significant to others but not to you, leaving you trying to feel something.... more

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

n. The nagging sense that you never quite manage to immerse yourself in a foreign culture.... more

n. The irrational fear that someone you know is angry at you, leading to a frenzy of outrage.... more

n. A state of exhaustion inspired by senseless tragedies and acts of violence, which force you to abruptly revise your expectations of what can happen in this world.... more

n. The sense that you're more than the categories that society puts you in.... 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 fear of being powerless to change the world around you.... more

n. An abrupt collapse of trust in yourself, resetting expectations and making it harder to guarantee your word's value.... more

adj. Nervously aware of untested assumptions about yourself that form your self-image.... more

n. The habit of believing that a single change could solve all problems, leaving you perpetually on the verge of a better life.... more

v. Finding yourself bothered by somebody's death more than you would have expected, even if they were only an abstract presence in your life.... more

n. An incantation whispered privately to celebrate the loss of something or someone loved.... more

n. The fear that everyone around the world is essentially the same, limiting opportunities for reinvention or seeking a better society elsewhere.... more

n. The disorienting feeling of meeting an old friend and realizing you've both changed.... more

n. A feeling of quiet amazement that you exist at all.... more

n. A tiny jolt of awareness that someday you will die, leaving you with a profound realization of life's impermanence.... more

adj. Sensing the judgment of your future self looking over your shoulder.... more

n. An excuse to rationalize a disappointing outcome by convincing yourself of alternative explanations.... more

n. The moment you realize you are changing as a person, outgrowing your old problems.... more

n. A condition of having an active social life but very few close friends.... more

n. The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.... more

n. An imaginary conversation with an old photo of yourself, offering advice or seeking validation.... more

n. A crisis of self-doubt emphasizing the need for balance in self-perception and actions.... more

n. The total set of human beings alive at any given time.... more

n. A sense of paradoxical relief when something bad happens to you.... more

n. The bittersweetness of finally learning the outcomes of events in the future but being unable to inform your past self.... more

adj. Feeling the loneliness of having to keep a secret to yourself.... more

n. A quiet jolt of recognition signaling the need to improve oneself.... more

adj. Afraid to relax your body and drift off to sleep due to the association with death.... more

n. The melodramatic thrill of unrequited love.... more

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

n. A caricature of yourself that went out of date years ago, though nobody around you seems to have noticed.... more

n. The self-contained pajama universe shared by two people on a long weekend morning.... more

n. The phenomenon of observing your parents interact with people they grew up with, which reboots their personalities into youth mode.... more

n. The act of trying to keep an amazing discovery to yourself.... more

n. The ethereal feeling of looking down at the world through an airplane window.... more

n. A condition of scanning faces in a crowd for a specific person who would have no reason to be there.... more

n. The state of not knowing how you truly feel about something, leading to self-analysis based on behavioral clues.... more

n. The tendency for social networks to magnify unexpected personality traits of people you know.... more

n. The wish to see statistics overlaid on every person you meet.... more

adj. Feeling ashamed after revealing too much of yourself to someone.... more

n. The fear that originality is no longer possible.... 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 frustration of never being able to truly understand another person's pain.... more

n. The fantasy of an elaborate diagnosis that neatly captures the kind of person you are.... more

n. A moment of sudden involvement in a stranger's personal life that breaks down barriers.... 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

adj. Longing for certainty in a relationship.... more

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

n. A state of exhaustion with being told what you want to hear, longing for someone to challenge you to become a better person.... more

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

n. The awareness of the limited scope of personal experiences in the world.... more

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

n. A pleasant nostalgic yearning.... more

n. Person who interrupts to talk about themselves.... more

n. Poor signature when formally identifying oneself.... more

n. Hideous large pimple.... more

n. Person loafing near pedestrian crossings.... more

n. Reasonable explanation for something obvious.... more

n. Disgust at someone with food on face.... more

n. Person browsing magazines all day.... more

n. Dullest holiday person who contacts later.... more

n. Embarrassing embellishments in passageway approach.... more

n. Person messing up walking down corridor.... more

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

n. Person looking dashing when unshaven and hungover.... more

n. Superior look at wrong shoes.... more

n. Slow person in supermarket queue.... more

n. Increase in zoo takings from lovers.... more

vb. Taking extra slice in division.... more