On Missing

“Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.”
~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld


Symptoms of missing someone-can they be generalized? What I know is what I go through. Little, sharp aches darting in my heart. Wondering what he is doing at any time of the day; whether his day, his week is going well. Images of him constantly on re-play.

Funny thing is, in missing someone, I seem to have a time limit, to the point when I would possibly implode. A 2-week absence (self-imposed or otherwise) is all about I can take. 2 weeks without him-without hearing his voice or seeing his face. I will then excruciatingly decide to cast aside fear or doubt and text him or call.

That’s the dilemma in any one-sided affair.

Even when I exert so called self-control and make up my mind for the fifteenth time or so to forget about him and wean myself off emotionally, my heart always fails me.

It’s damaging on your pride to be on that end of a relationship and when it seems you are the only one doing the missing. But what place is there for pride in love.

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