- Missing someone is a sign of emotional maturity.
- It's an achievement to care for someone and endure their absence.
- Growing up involves learning to manage the pain of missing someone.
- We often engage in complex maneuvers to avoid the feeling of missing someone.
- Children show us the raw emotion of missing someone.
- As adults, we may lose our capacity to love if we become too allergic to the pain of missing someone.
- We may reconfigure our perception of someone to lessen the pain of their absence.
- Emotional maturity involves acknowledging the pain of missing someone without resorting to numbness, rage, or distraction.
via The Achievement of Missing Someone