Challenge
Emotion: Ambedo
n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake
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Write short prose or poem expressing this emotion. Regardless of which on you choose it has to be expressed within 6 to 12 sentences ( prose) or lines (prose or poem).
I'll be doing four more of these challenges later. Thank you Thought Catalog for gathering these wonderful words. May the games begin!
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On the 18th of January, I'll be starting Nodus Tollens as my Emotion challenge.
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Subway Windows
When I was a kid I thought that looking into the subway windows would let me see into the future. If I focussed on the flashing lights and lines as we passed, emersed myself in the clacking of the tracks, squeaking of doors, hum of light conversation, maybe I would be able to glimpse a jump in time.
Spoiler alert, I didn’t see the future.
But the windows never lost their appeal. The rhythm of the individual cars and the way they plunge into tunnels with nothing but streaking white lights on either side puts me into a haze. The faint reflection of passengers in the window mixed with the tunnel that abruptly disappears when we go outside makes it more hypnotizing. Regardless of my age, the windows will always have a certain magic.