Beyond the Palette

  "Once on the internet, always on the internet"  This is a saying as old as time that I wish I had learned about and understood sooner. When I was a kid, I was head over heels for trying to gain internet fame. Like completely obssessed. So I made an account called "epic.noob_gaming" on tiktok, where I would post roblox content daily. I would spend a lot of time on these videos, They were quite random, varying from comedy to videos about how I felt sad about something that happened in my life. The videos did alright; some would get a couple thousand views and some would get like 20. However, not being educated aobut the seriousness of the internet, I also made a couple dark videos, jokes regarding serious events I would rather not say. Of course it I regret it, and I think it was really dumb that I would even attempt at content creation. In fact, looking back at it now, everything about it was mega corny. I would literally edit my roblox avatar doing dances to some ...

SONDER /ˈsɑːn.dɚ/ noun            the awareness that other people all have their own complex set of feelings and experiences Driving home from the golf range one evening, I found myself thinking about a tiktok I had seen a couple days earlier. The video introduced me to the concept of sonder – the idea that every person I pass is living a life just as vivid and complex as my own. I'm not sure if it was because the sky was pretty and I was feeling philosophical as heck, but the video resonated with me so much. The thought that a random pedestrian could be having the best day of their life, while another passing by could have just lost a loved one is so mind-boggling to me.  To them, their life and the way they percieve it is the only thing they know; to me, they are nothing more than a face I'll never see again. Every person carries a story, a story so intricate and unique that I'll never be able to understand it, let alone even acknowledge it...