Filler . . .

I thought that I’d fill in those days on which I was unable to post with some unusual word definitions that I found on The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows:

Zielschmerz

n. the exhilarating dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer protected inside the terrarium of hopes and delusions that you created in kindergarten and kept sealed as long as you could, only to break in case of emergency.

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