What Burning Man Taught a Builder
"When you see a structure burn to the ground...it's gone, and it forces you to see the value of the people around you. That's the reason you are doing this thing"
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This is the fourth episode of "Sonder", a series on the diversity, complexity, and connectivity of the human experience.
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, or as a viewer on YouTube.