Cold Pills and Such . . .

I was missing my cold pills just now. Couldn’t find them anywhere. I needed them a lot! Then I got to wondering if I would be missing them if I didn’t need them. If I didn’t need them I would be lacking them, but would someone say I was missing them? Would someone say, “oh no! you’re missing your cold!” No, because we don’t miss things we don’t need. To be more specific, when we miss something, we are missing something we had and find we need again at that particular moment because if you never had something you wouldn’t miss it. A fish doesn’t miss his wings. But a fish would miss its fins.

So when we say “I miss you,” we really mean “I need you.” That’s freaky.