Origins
From Lethe (Greek: the river of forgetting in the underworld, drunk by souls before they returned to the world) and -mir, an Old Slavic suffix meaning world or peace. A peace built on what has been forgotten.
Meaning
We grow impatient with the people still caught in the patterns we used to live inside. Their excuses sound thin. Their blindness looks willful.
And somewhere beneath our frustration, a quiet truth is missing. We used to sound exactly like them. The forgetting was not deliberate.
Lethemir is the gentle amnesia that lets recovery feel like a position we have always held, rather than a shore we only recently reached.
Usage
I caught myself in a Lethemir moment, judging him for the exact thing I was doing a year ago.