I Miss You
‘I Miss You’, three simple words. Short, sweet and yet, quite powerful. When I think of it, I cannot think of a single instance when someone told me these words and it didn’t make me feel special. I have often wondered how this line came into being, ‘I love you’ & ‘I hate you’ are more direct proclamations of our feelings, but ‘I miss you’-How did this line originate? Maybe it started when people actually ‘missed’ someone, as in the missed opportunity of meeting someone-like missing an appointment, or missing a train! Over the years a guess the sentimental area of our brain (wherever it is), realized that the physical presence of a person in our lives no matter how strong our memories of them maybe is very important to our sense of well being. When someone says ’I miss you’, it makes you feel important, doesn’t it? There was a time not so long ago when people would hesitate so much to say the words I love you that they would resort to writing poems, lett