#14 Missing

Bhopal - 20th October 2021

I think we have all felt at some point, the feeling of something missing.

Like something ought to be here, but it isn't.

Forgetting something important. Not being somewhere we had to be.

An empty wall missing a picture. A puzzle missing a piece.

It's the feeling of not wearing your mask when you've left the house.

We are forgetting something - it's missing. A part of you knows what it is you're missing, but its not in front of you yet, you don't see it - until you do.

We talk about missing people too, but that's not quite the same. We often know who we are missing. I feel missing people is a misnomer, unless we are talking about someone who has actually gone missing.

We long for some people. Longing... not missing.

Longing is remembering. And if we are remembering it, we probably haven't missed it. We paid attention - lots of it.

I couldn't go to sleep because my brain wouldn't shut down.

It kept saying, "You're missing something."