How to Miss Loved Ones Better: The Psychology of Waiting and Withstanding Absence

In a certain sense, we are always waiting for the great moment of gathering or belonging and it always evades us. We are haunted with a deep sense of absence. There is something missing from our lives. We always expect it to be filled by a definite person, object, or project. We are desperate to fill this emptiness, but the soul tells us, if we lis

It is only as an adult that I have been able to meditate on the problem of omission, on what is missing rather than what is there, and to begin to understand that the unsaid may speak as loudly as the said.

Waiting Here’s a quiz. Which is longer—15 minutes of waiting for someone who is late, or 15 minutes of keeping others waiting? Objectively, it’s the same period of time, but when you have managed to successfully negotiate life on your end and have arrived for your appointment on time (leaving countless other things undone in the process), you can b

Nietzsche once defined “not being able to wait” as one of our most typically human qualities. In culture as in history, all tragedies and comedies are simply the result of someone not being able to wait. If Medea had simply taken the day off? If Hamlet had put things off for even longer? If Arjuna has called the whole thing off? But not being able