The Types’ Obscure Sorrows

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ESTJ - Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.

ISTJ - Énouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.

ENFP - Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening

INFP - Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.

ESFJ - Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.

ISFJ - Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.

ENTP - Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.

INTP - Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

ENFJ - Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.

INFJ - Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.

ESTP - Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster – to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.

ISTP - Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.

ENTJ - Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.

INTJ - Ellipsism: A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out.

ESFP - Vemödalen: The frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.

ISFP - Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.