Loss

n. Homesickness for a place you can't return to or that never existed.... more

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

n. Finding beauty in imperfections and accepting life's transience.... more

n. Forgetting directions right after hearing them.... more

adj. Shocked upon noticing an obvious detail in something you see daily that you had never seen before.... 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 a sense of loss upon finishing a good book.... more

n. An odd interval of blankness felt after a significant event but before the emotional response.... more

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

n. The feeling of emptiness after completing a long and arduous process.... more

n. The fear that your deepest connections with people are ultimately pretty shallow.... more

n. The state of having lost all control over how you feel about someone.... more

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

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

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

n. A disconcerting cluster of simultaneous endings.... more

n. The delirium of having spent all day in an aesthetic frame of mind that infuses the world with an aura of meaning.... more

n. The moment you wake up from an immersive dream and have to abruptly recalibrate to the real world.... more

adj. Afraid that your life is predetermined by predictable milestones, wishing for a break to reassess your path.... more

n. A liqueur for the end of a long party when better drinks are gone.... more

n. Complainer about the word 'gay' being lost.... more

n. Replacing chess pieces with ornaments.... more

n. Asleep leg to haul around.... more

n. Moment of false recognition in passageway.... more

n. Realisation alarm didn't go off.... more

n. Tiny inkling something wrong.... more

n. Value of epping's usefulness.... more