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  And most people always think themselves a hero of their own story don't they but not everybody
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  I've found that that realization takes an awful lot of the pressure off. Why worry what people think of you when you finally realize they're not thinking of you at all. 
  Took me decades to finally realize my life has no grand purpose; that I wasn't placed here to be anyone's hero; that I wasn't created to make big changes in the world. 
  If this world is a salad, then most of us are just ingredients. Myself I'm a healthy leafy green, nothing more, nothing less. >
  
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  The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows has a word for that: sonder. 
  n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk. >
  
  That totally reminded me of Roy's monologue from Blade Runner.