Moment of Tangency: A Glimpse of What Might Have Been
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ETYMOLOGY
A tangent is where a line 'just touches' a curve, sharing the same angle for a bit before carrying off to infinity.
WHAT IS THAT MUSIC?
"Dandelion Snow" by Ian Paul Livingstone
"Still Water Reflection" by Simon Charles Porter
TRANSCRIPT
You and I have never met, many times before.
Our paths might have crossed once or twice online,
or passing in the street,
We might've lived in the same neighborhood all our lives,
but against incredible odds,
we just happened to miss each other.
It's a big world, after all.
Our days must be filled with these chance encounters,
that for a million tiny reasons, never actually take place.
Accidental strangers, who just happened to miss their cue.
who share everything in common,
except for time and place.
For years, their stories might've been happening in parallel,
harmonizing from somewhere across the world,
but neither has any idea that the other even exists.
If two lines are truly parallel,
it means they'll never actually meet.
It's hard not to wonder where they are right now,
veering away on a tangent, in some parallel universe,
Hard not to glance at a stranger in a crowd,
and imagine the life you might have shared,
if things had been different,
and feel a pang of missed connection
as you carry on your separate ways,
leaving nothing but an echo
of something that might have been.
You never know how many things had to happen exactly right
for you to meet the one you love,
You never know how easily fate might have tipped you onto some other course,
meeting some other person, who would feel like a soulmate.
Maybe you'd still be telling your friends it was always meant to be,
As if you knew all along that your paths would cross.
Or maybe you'd look back at your life and realize:
it was nothing personal-it's all just a coincidence.
You never know.
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"If two lines are truly parallel, it means they'll never actually meet."
For some reason this sentence gave me goosebumps.
JonasSkillsHD agreed
Not true in Non Euclidean geometry
thank god we live in a non euclidean world huh, oh wait
Touché!!
Bronson I guess that means they weren't truly parallel then
Making this episode was a joy, but naturally took forever to find shots that paired up. Sifting through hours of people's Super8 and 16mm home videos was one of the sweetest wisftully painful pleasures I've ever had. If you ever get tired of what the world has come to, browse around on Vimeo for old movies like this. Even just the soft grainy color of the film stock will make your heart ache.
I love alll the stuff on this channel, and I'm so glad to see more! You know, I always wished there was a Twilight Zone-esque series based on these words, each episode a half-hour or an hour designed to evoke and discuss one of the words... It could be awesome. Just throwing that idea out there!
It sure did make my heart nice ache :).
PS: And thanks for including our Toronto Bathurst Station!
Thanks for that!
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows I'm so glad to see you guys back :)
Funny you should mention that. I actually pitched a series idea to a digital network with a friend of mine a few months ago. The idea was this: each episode would define an Obscure Sorrow through a narrative story, following the arc of the emotion as the character experiences it, exactly like Twilight Zone in structure. Each week we'd would follow a different character, but as you watched you'd notice them pop up again, going about their lives, as extras in the background. The young soldier we followed in Episode 4 would appear again in Episode 9, as an older man dealing with life as a veteran, buying groceries from our main character. All of these stories would intersect with each other in a dozen different ways, invisible to them but ever more clear to the viewer, enriching the fabric of the world the more they watched. I would have called the series SONDER. Never heard back though.
I've said this so many times. This channel captures an ache in my heart, that I myself cannot explain yet, it speaks what my soul struggles to say out loud. Such profound content. Such creativity. Such timeless wisdom.
Thank you.
Well said!
Before I heard him, I always believed music filled in when I didn't have the words or just didn't or couldn't use them. But music is comprised of words.. I had a "I never through about it that way before?" An Ah ha moment. I love those😊
3 years later, and I still find myself coming back to this video.
Huh... What a coincidence
I do, too.
me too😂
Same
[resurrealization] That moment when you realize that you were missing something for a long time without actually knowing what it was.
Okay I’m a little proud of the fact that at 1:56 I was able to have the person in the puffy jacket walk across the left frame but never through the right, even though she would of course walk across both. She just never shows up. Helps drive a subtle wedge between left and right.
Yes. From a fellow editor / filmmaker...it's the little things.
I've checked your website multiple times over the months for something new, and was very glad to see this today. Thank you for your work, John. If you ever get funding for the show Sonder, I would be honored to work with you on it.
I’ll remember that, thank you Samuel.
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Don't worry! we
noticed ^^ lovely detail
my eyes almost teared up at that part man, it was so perfect because I was expecting a happy ending :(
but where did they go WHERE DID THEY GO (seriously)
beautiful edit all around: i'm particularly entranced by that last two-shot/split-screen. obviously you graded the color in the right "frame" to give the appearance that it's a different shot entirely; but it also looks like you de-stabilized it a bit (or something to that effect)? regardless, beautifully done. bravo, bravo.
The pang of regret you experience around someone with whom you were once close; but since you have drifted away from. Knowing that you two are now completely different people, only sharing history, that will one day be forgotten.
unless your friendship turns out to be a lilo! [his newest DooS word]
This vid makes me think of if soul mates are a real concept? I’m not sure
I need defined this emotion: revisiting a place you frequented as a child, that you haven't been to since you were little, and realizing how small that place actually is, that seemed so humongous and spacious at one point in your life.
It's a combination of disappointment at how small the world has become, nostalgia for a sense of space, and longing for that once big world.
But most of all it's a sharp realization that the world is shrinking as you become older, simply because of life experience. Our mind and heart can only hold so many big places.
Britny Doane That's definitely a good one! I've felt it so many times
Wasn't he talkibg about that in another video already? Maybe just mentioned it... not sure, could be "Kenopsia"?
my family moved from my first house when I was 13.I came back to the apartment some years later and I went to my room,and without looking I tried to switch the lights on,but my hand didn't meet the switch.Then i looked at it and it was like 10cm below from where i touched(because I got much taller).Dem feels hit me hard.
So extremely glad that I never unsubscribed!
makeartsteph exactly my thought
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I have this "urge to unsubscribe" when I see new videos after such a long time. What is this feeling called?
NEVER.
Me too, I really hope this means more are coming soon, this is by far one of my favorite forms of 'art' and have religiously watched all the others 20 times.
Is there a word for the span of time between a question asked and an answer received, a span of time in which all possibilities are in the air?
Toh Wee Peng damn that is something I've never thought about, wow
or the moment before opening a door, where everything resonates in a superposition before observation
Yes, Schrödinger's cat.
Toh Wee Peng yeah it's called this channel
Khaled Metwally are you talking about quantum physics?
New Video after a century! Im so sorrowful.
holy fuck i thought this channel is dead!
certainly glad it's not. please do stuff more frequently.
I will. Thanks for sticking with me as I slow down while I write the book.
Happy you are back! You're writing a book of obscure sorrows???
Is there anywhere we can preorder the book?
Yes! Simon & Schuster
Some ideas I would like defined, if you don't mind:
1. Realizing in retrospect that someone was valuable to you, even if they didn't seem so at the time.
2. The rejection of certain people in our lives due to a character trait they possess reminiscent of someone who hurt us.
3. The aversion to having one's picture or video taken, or one's aversion to social media as a platform to share these due to a fear of those you used to know seeing you change.
Oh! Also: How each year seems shorter the older you become.
He has done the last one, Zenosyne: the sense that times keep going faster
For #1 this video seems about right...
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2. Sounds like Projective Identification
Eleanor i would love one on number 3.. omg that one hit so hard
I wonder about this often. If someone is just like me somewhere, but we will never meet or be friends.
I'll be your friend!
There was this game that my sister and I used to play, we would stare at our reflections in the mirror, then pretend that they have different lives when we leave, that the world on the other side of the mirror was different 😂😂😂
Same
Didn't think about it before
Something similar just happened to me. I went on a date yesterday, and it went very well. She was smart, crazy, funny. We talked for hours without stopping. It might be the one and only date we have. She’s moving to Texas. Even on that first date, I already wanted to know more about her and be around her more. Perhaps it was the fact I knew she wasn’t gonna be around soon that sparked this feeling. It made it easier on my part to feel this way. An ache for a relationship that won’t be explored. The love and heartache that can’t be experienced with such a wonderful human
What do you call the feeling of suddenly completely understanding something you've known forever? That one moment where suddenly something you thought you knew becomes so very known, and understood, and felt, to the point that you question how you never saw it before. You feel the need to share this information you knew but now you truly understand, and it's like a small epiphany just for you. Everyone else seems to have already understood, and you have to savour this newfound comprehension on your own.
LSD peak ?
dobrodave123 don't do drugs so scratch that theory.
@@kirstydepaor547 it keeps happening the older I get, suddenly having eyes and hands for what seems to have been in others' possession for evermore.
This idea makes me want to talk to more random strangers on the bus or waiting in line. It's kind of sad how we're around other people all the time without ever truly meeting them.
Holy cow, you are making a book?? Please make an audiobook as well, your voice makes me dream!
I will, and thank you.
I'd buy that book in a heartbeat. Your voice is art.
@Chris Cyrel Estil this November
I HAVE BEEN WAITING TOO LONG FOR THIS MOMENT OF TANGENCY! 😭😭😰
Enrico Lissiotto Glad we have a tangent here.
I've missed these so much.
Thank you for posting again.
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clicked so damn hard.
Arpit Bharti Same!
Dito 😍
when i saw this in my english class it really got to me, like when you read a book your really interested in and it just touches you on the inside because of an event... simply amazing
The feeling when you have a certain feeling or idea or train of thoughts and feel related to all the humans in the past and in the future who had or will have the exact same thought/feeling. It's pretty hard to explain (that's part of the reason why I'd hope you'd make a video on it) but hopefully my English was good enough for you to understand.
Xoid97
I'm shocked. I know *exactly* what you mean.
This happens to me every single day. I think about this all the time.
And then I imagine how many people in the past and in the future have thought this same thing, had this same feeling... Wow... It's an wonderful thing to think about, isnt it? At least now I know somebody else in some distant (or near?) corner of the world feels the same way as I do :-)
We really need a word for this.
Lea D sort of like an deja vu between multiple people
yes!!!!!!!!!!! someone needs to make this video happen
I feel that way when I look up at the Moon or the stars and think, "Dinosaurs looked up at that...Neanderthals looked up at that...Every person who has ever lived and could see that, looked up at that...."
Maybe similar to the idea of collective unconscious.
"Who share everything in common, except for time and place." That was a great quote. Out of 7+ billion people, you know there has to be somebody that shares your mindset, interests, and personality traits as you somewhere in the world. Completely simpatico.
Whoever is the maker of this channel/content, thank you for doing what you're doing.
Yes you're back!! Please don't disappear again
I won't, promise.
Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows I missed you too!!
You guys should be given an Oscar for this, It does not matter if there is no category for RUclips videos, You guys create Art, not just videos. I am 15 at the moment and really wish that when I grow up I create something that can stand up to your art. Cheers to everyone who works on these videos.
Thanks! It’s just me here, my name is John. A one-man show. I’m glad you find the show meaningful.
5 years later and every now and then i keep coming back
Clinging onto the ephemeral..Just as Camus warned us not to. This brought me to tears several times. Utterly stunning and exquisite
Oh my God. It's back! Yes!
It was a summer day. One of those when you just want to sing and dance and mess around.
I left home for a train station in the morning. On the way I passed a bench. And on that bench an old man was sitting. And that old man was playing a guitar and singing old trump songs my generation does not remember anymore.
I looked at him, but my shy eyes ran away soon, I kept walking.
He too looked at me and said: "Come here, young man, sit down."
I answered, surprised: "I am sorry, there is a train I have to catch."
Still playing the guitar he answered: "I have to catch all the trains yet I am sitting here."
I smiled and left the scene.
Soon I forgot all of this. A year later the memory came back to me, and since then I have been wondering... what would change if I stopped? Harsh times came after the meeting... would it all be different if I sat down back then?
I never seen the old man since that summer day, although I pass that bench every single day.
He was an accidental stranger.
(English is far from being my native language, tolerate and point out the mistakes please)
Years later, these videos hit so hard.
Define this for me. the feeling that you are the main character in your own movie and expect yourself to be destined for some great adventure where you "save the world" like you are meant to be the most important person in the world. yet you find that you have trouble living up to that role and/or feel like its not gonna happen, like you're just ordinary...
there must be a word for intensely missing a specific source of entertainment which engulfs ones heart in deep sorrow ultimately enlightening and embracing the darker points of life which can't otherwise be obtained in conventional means of entertainment or pastime.
there must be a word for that!
I'm on it!
You mean Dark Souls lol? I think you're describing the feeling after Dark Souls has been beaten. It just scratched that special itch for so many. Nothing else is the same.
But seriously yeah, what you described does need a word because that is quite literally an obscure sorrow.
@@obscuresorrows I'm afraid it already exists and it's called ancient Greek tragedy - which Plato didn't want a bar of in his Republic, "because it caters to that part of the soul that thirsts for grieving"...
Wow, I am so incredible happy you are back! :)
The emotion of Disconnect from a part of who we are when a parent dies. That deepening sense of loss that will never be found nor replaced.
The emotion we experience as we journey through life on a day to day existence as if on a train, waiting for our destination to finally arrive.
Can't wait for you book!
"I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happenin' at the same time."
-Forrest Gump
Glad you're here.
Welcome back!
Oh my god! I can't wait till the book version
I spent some time away from this video after seeing it three years ago but find myself coming back to it about once a week for the last six months or so. I wish this channel would upload again.
Can’t wait for their book to come out too
Holy shit! The best channel on RUclips is back!!!!
I still come back to this channel and rewatch the videos. Waiting for the book!
YOU'RE BACK!
Coincidentally, I was just thinking today about how slim the chance is that you'll actually find "true love." The world is so massive, and, in reality, you meet so few people in your life, that it's nearly impossible to know whether you're actually the happiest you could be. It's certainly possible to be content with who you find, but in the end, all anyone ever does is settle for someone they find good enough.
I need an emotion for this:
"The resentment to someone who is so right for you but because of unfathomable circumstance keeps you from bridging that fine layer between sublime devotion or pure unadulterated hatred.."
good old ambivalence, I'm afraid.
The videos you create, are hands down, the most wonderful things the internet has ever produced.
Not hyperbole. Fact.
Heart skipped a beat when I saw that a new video was posted. And it was life-changing all over again....
I'm more than happy right now because of you, just knowing that you're still making our world a better place :) I missed you
your ability to put things into words that people cant blows my mind.
Every time I see one of those videos makes me want to make a song. They feel so personal and so universal at the same time...
oh my god can't believe this channel is back with new videos
This, This is what I have been looking for for years, this is the most real and intense feeling I've ever felt, thank you so much, I finally have some answers.
Right! Always wondering what could have been and realizing how this relates to my relationships
BEST CHANNEL BEST PRODUCTION BEST CRIATIVITY BEST EVERYTHING...THESE MOVIES MAKE MY HEART MELT AND OFTENLY MY TEARS COME DOWN (IN A GOOD WAY) PLEASE DON'T TAKE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH LONG TIME POSTING A VIDEO The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
I replayed this three times and it made me cry so much.
You know, I've been thinking about this a lot, like for years. I always think about alternate realities where some small details would just change everything.
Thank you for making these videos, I've been watching your channel since I was still in school and it has a great impact on how I view life on a day-to-day basis. You're like a pair of glasses I never knew I needed.
So is there a word for what this channel is? I'd describe it as one of those rare and exceedingly exquisite things that you once found and took home with you. You kept it safe in your special drawer. In time, it moved its way to the bottom of that drawer, as time went by, and as other items cluttered your drawer. Then one day, by happy chance, it resurfaces, and you experience that special joy of realizing that not only did this thing existed, but you had it in your posession, and now you could revel in its existence again. And it was wonderful.
My good friend sent me this video, and that's how the genesis of our relationship started, and I got the idea that there's something between us. We have been dating for two years now :)
My god it just came to my mind how much i missed your videos and BAAM as I check your channel after YEARS of lifetime there is a new upload... WHAT A HAPPY MOMENT!
So glad this channel is still alive. By far my favourite channel on RUclips!
I miss you man. I am so happy you come back
So glad to see this channel didn't die!
Never die!
i have been coming back to this video from time to time, i don't know why, but it affected me deeply. i can't believe it's two years old...
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. So relatable
I'm glad you're okay and made another video. Thank you.
As always, beautifully done.
As always, so damn depressing.
This channel scratches an itch that literally nothing else can scratch for me
Glad you guys are back! And I have been feeling this moment of tangency recently too....
Man all these videos got me crying with existential tears
Emotion suggestions- when you feel unable to talk to people and friends around you but cannot find the reason why. Perhaps it's because you don't feel as if anything you say will change what's going on around you, or you just can't think of anything to contribute to a conversation. Maybe you're just tired. But whatever it is, it makes you want to stay silent
I'm not sure if this a thing everyone feels but I feel it quite often so I thought it was worth a suggestion
I'm so happy that this series is hopefully back.
Such a beautiful video and way of seeing things ~ thank you!
Hey Koenig! Please never stop this project!
HE'S BACK
I could not put into words how grateful I am to see this channel come back to life again. After so long. Also, these subscribers... really seem to be the most enchanting people I've ever came across to.
I've never been so happy to be so sorrowful.
I... don't know what to say...this is amazing... you're back and it couldn't be better
welcome back. there is so many obscure sorrows in the world, undocumented.
thanks for coming back.... been waiting for the updates..............
thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
I have waited so long for this moment
I've missed this so much.. Never stop making these videos, please bring me a unique sensation. from Brazil
I THOUGHT THIS CHANNEL WOULD NEVER GET ME IN MY FEELS AGAIN GHADAMMIT
OMG!! Thank you so, so much. I have miss this channel!!
Oh how I have missed these! A book?!
I can't believe what my eyes are seeing... so grateful for your comeback, John !
It doesn't has to do with the video, but... John, maybe you make a video talking a little bit about your production process? I think many of your fans would be interesting in this subject, about how you do your videos and so on.. Anyway, just an idea.
What parts of production? Editing, searching for footage? Writing?
Well, personally, for me, one aspect that particularly interest me would be your process of searching for footage.
'Cause I think that for somebody that produces this kind of video, this is probably the biggest time consuming stage,' cause you can't just type in Google or Vimeo, for instance: "Video of a couple entering in an abandoned old building the afternoon ", if you wanna a footage like this you have to type something more as "abandoned building" and search through tens of videos.
If you want footage of people on earth seeing the man landing on the moon looking with their full towards the TV, maybe you can search for any series that takes places in the 60s (I was searching for a scene like this and ended up finding it in the series "Mad Men" LOL).
So it would be really cool to see how your process works, see your advice and such. And hints on how to find that special scene.
But it would be great to see other parts of your creation process too, especially your written process and work-flow!
Any or all of them. Starting with your favorite parts !
happy to see you back, always a bittersweet pleasure.
“If two lines are truly parallel, it means they will never actually meet”
Another video from Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Welcome Back !!!!!!!!!!!
I never thought I'd see this channel in my subscription.
Ooooo snap! You're back!
Welocme back!! Hope we will see more meaningful videos!
welcome back! c:
Whenever I feel bad, I go to your channel and literally see all your videos and it makes me feel good again, thanks for all the content you provided, I really appreciate all of them, and i hope to get your book here in Brazil.
"echo of something that might have been" - how beautiful ? John Koenig, I am glad u exist..
This feeling hurt me for a very long time. But after getting over it this video is more inspiring. It makes me realize the vast opportunity there is.
ill definitely be buying the book
This is glorious. So glad you are back!
your Alive!!!!
When I just saw that you posted another video, I literally gasped out loud by myself
An idea for an emotion: What about the emotion of not being able to express how you feel. like the feeling of not being able to put something into words and not being able to communicate it.
words for similar concepts: lacuna/lexical gap, hypocognition (which means, I believe, not being able to *think* about a thing because one doesn't have a word - but can you really fully think/feel that emotion if you don't have the word? so if I was feeling that way I'd probably settle for "hypocognition")
@@2b-coeur Thank you!
Never been so happy to be sad! Glad to see a new video!