What does it take to miss someone?

Well how do you miss something you’ve never experienced?

Yes, it does come with the presence of a person. Whether it has to be physical presence is another matter.

I think you could miss the time you spent and the communication that you had with someone that you knew only on the Web.

I don’t know…I miss John Lennon…how does that factor into this?

Missing something implies the removal of the thing. If I lose a dish from my 8-place-setting of Christmas plates and am down to 7, I’m missing one. However, if I have all eight pieces intact, nothing is missing, even if I think that red serving platter would look wonderful with them.

I think we can mourn “what might have been” with someone we never hooked up with, or we can regret that John Lennon died because of all the wonderful music he might have written if he’d lived. Since we never had that relationship or heard that music, though, it’s not really “missing.”

By asking this question, you apparently have never been in love or loved by someone else.

To be away from them for a long period of time

@john65pennington yes i have, i was just asking to see what other people think.. thanks.

I suppose it’s possible to miss the “idea” of something but in all honesty, to actually miss something or someone, you’d really have had to have had some contact (whether real or virtual) in my opinion.
I agree with prior points, how can you miss something you’ve never had?
I cant miss being a topless lapdancer because I never was one (I failed the audition), but I can miss my wee pet Yorkie, Trixie who passed away 2 years ago.
I know you can miss people you’ve never met, if you’ve been in contact with them as E-friends but I’d find it hard to believe you could miss someone you dont know, Well, let’s qualify that, You can miss Elvis or John Lennon because you have experience of them, in thier movies and music etc even though you may not know them or have met them.
Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most…........................ :0)

The feeling that you aren’t complete when they aren’t there.

You have to like them or love them before you really miss them.

I think @laureth hit the nail on the head. In order to miss something you have to have had it at one point. When it comes to missing people, I don’t think you need to have been with them in person in order to miss them, but you need to have had contact in one form or another.

I frequently miss the point but I don’t think that is germane here. Dutch, maybe…but not germane.

All our relationships take place in our minds. I don’t care whether the person is within range of touch, or is virtual in one of many media, or is completely a product of your own imagination. Their character and their action and their essence are all ideas inside you.

If that perception goes away, You can miss it. Missing something or someone or an idea or fantasy or whatever is something that takes place in your mind as well.

I’ve experienced missing virtual people. I’ve fallen in love with people online. It’s weird because a couple of those relationships felt as intense as real, physical relationships. It made me want the real thing even more passionately than before.

You miss those with whom you have an “emotional investment”.

These are people who have gotten past your guard and “taken residence in your inner emotional sanctuary”. You’ve moved “emotional furniture” around and have become accustomed to having them reside there.

“You and I” are no longer…two become one.

When they move on, you feel the hollowness of their presence being no longer there.

A bit of yourself is missing.

There are people on line I have gotten to know and miss them dearly when the are not on line or worse when they actually get a real life and leave me here!! Waaaaa!

@daloon I’m glad I’m not alone in that perspective thankkksss(: GA(:

Usually it means you want to be in the same place someone else is. I don’t believe you have to even know who that someone else is, if you want to be with a boy/girl friend, and you don’t have one, you can miss them (as in a generic “them”)

@Cruiser Exactly!!!
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Ditto to what Cruiser said. There are some people I have gotten to know online that I am very close to. And I really really really miss them. Why can’t we all just be a family again?

I think.. anything that you like or has meaning for you can be missed if it’s taken away.