Missing...Longing are they the same?

Are they the same? In my opinion missing could be defined as missing a love one, relatives, friends, and even a partner but longing…longing would be the sense of loss when the other is not around. It hurts and the need to be in ones arms or presence is stronger then ever. But longing does not come as often and surely as missing.

Longing makes you see small little things that one would not realize or take for granted. Privacy becomes a need and is held sacred. Thoughts grow and expand to unthinkable heights. Things around us seems more clear, we feel the wind, see the setting sky…feel love but not just merely physical, engulfing us in this warm embrace. Yet there seem to be something missing… a void.. an unexplainable feeling..lost? The boundaries of life, the held backs, culture, religion has a part in our decision of life.

Therefore one would never be totally happy and would not be able to do what the heart wants for who would want to be the bad apple of society? The sense of longing is then developed slowly and unconsciously.. Will it be overcomeD? Can it? Longing…It is so hard to properly explain it in words. Something hard to grasp. It is easier to feel it rather then put it in words. Longing…Longing… ( 5th November 2005)