Colosseum

Okay, so this came up.

I was texting with a friend of mine in the UK and she has German heritage.

Her dad is from Germany and then moved to the United Kingdom.

And we were lamenting the state of the world.

And she said that she has quite a lot of Weltschmerz right now.

And I was like...

That is a word I have not heard before.

What does that mean? So I looked it up.

So it's spelled W-E-L-T-S-C-H-M-E-R-Z.

But because W's in German are usually pronounced like a B for Victor, so it's Weltschmerz.

And it is basically a German word that means, quote unquote, world pain, which describes a deep melancholic sadness or weariness about the suffering, evil and imperfections found in the world.

And so I just thought it was such a perfect phrase.

word to encapsulate how many of us are feeling right now this heaviness and sadness and you know there isn't quite a word in english british or american english that i feel has captured that feeling quite so well as this german word weltschmerz

you know it reminds me of i'm going to take you to a throwback lisa um for anyone who grew up and please can we just set aside a few differences about it right now, but anyone that can harken back to the Cosby show specifically when Theo, I believe was in school at NYU studying psychology and And his dad was asking him a lot of questions about something in particular.

And it was just he he asked so many questions of Theo at a certain point.

He just got tired and sad and frustrated by just wearing him down about something that he wanted to make a decision on it.

It got to a point where Theo just kind of threw his hands in the air and said, forget it.

I don't even want to engage with this anymore because I'm exhausted from the line of questioning.

Right.

And it feels like a similar emotion around.

We want to stay in the fight.

We want to continue to be on the right side of history.

We want to call out foolishness when we see it.

so forth and so on, especially as it relates to injustice in the world.

But even when it's something that you want to do and you've committed your life to,

Okay, so this came up.

I was texting with a friend of mine in the UK and she has German heritage.

Her dad is from Germany and then moved to the United Kingdom.

And we were lamenting the state of the world.

And she said that she has quite a lot of Weltschmerz right now.

And I was like...

That is a word I have not heard before.

What does that mean? So I looked it up.

So it's spelled W-E-L-T-S-C-H-M-E-R-Z.

But because W's in German are usually pronounced like a B for Victor, so it's Weltschmerz.

And it is basically a German word that means, quote unquote, world pain, which describes a deep melancholic sadness or weariness about the suffering, evil and imperfections found in the world.

And so I just thought it was such a perfect phrase.

word to encapsulate how many of us are feeling right now this heaviness and sadness and you know there isn't quite a word in english british or american english that i feel has captured that feeling quite so well as this german word weltschmerz

you know it reminds me of i'm going to take you to a throwback lisa um for anyone who grew up and please can we just set aside a few differences about it right now, but anyone that can harken back to the Cosby show specifically when Theo, I believe was in school at NYU studying psychology and And his dad was asking him a lot of questions about something in particular.

And it was just he he asked so many questions of Theo at a certain point.

He just got tired and sad and frustrated by just wearing him down about something that he wanted to make a decision on it.

It got to a point where Theo just kind of threw his hands in the air and said, forget it.

I don't even want to engage with this anymore because I'm exhausted from the line of questioning.

Right.

And it feels like a similar emotion around.

We want to stay in the fight.

We want to continue to be on the right side of history.

We want to call out foolishness when we see it.

so forth and so on, especially as it relates to injustice in the world.

But even when it's something that you want to do and you've committed your life to,