Question 2: Geeta
What does it feel like for you when you miss someone?
I don't know it's a blur. I—okay so, I'm going to move next month. And if I do move to New York, it will be the 10th city—9th city in the last 10 years. So I'm—and sorry, the 10th city I live in. So I was born in Liberia. I'm an Indian. I was born to Indian parents, who emigrated to India from Erstwhile India, which is currently Pakistan. So—and I was born in Liberia, and I lived there for 8 years, then I lived in India for 10 years, then I lived in Switzerland for 1 year and I lived in uh Paris for 2 years and I lived in Singapore for a year, and I lived in Oman for 2 years I lived in London for a year and now in Abu Dhabi in 3 and a half years and I'm going back to Oman or New York. So. If you ask me, I have—that's why I said my mom's my only friend. Because then .. your-your blood relations—or even-even not blood relations, just the closest people in your life, you keep and then everything else is just—filters itself out, weeds itself out, and—i have friends everywhere. And I have a great network of p—friends. But .. it's not an everyday friend. You know? It's just .. so so there's no missing .. when you're a traveler yourself, and you're a nomad. You know? There's no missing. You-you miss the sense of self, you miss your own identity.
What do you mean by that?
Like a bit of soul-searching, when you don't … .. when you leave so much behind, I think you try to find yourself to retain your sanity, or just to find your purpose. … And, and I think you focus more on the future than the past. And missing has to do with the past, and it's—so you're thinking about your destination, and everyone's destination at the end of the day is death. So—is the grave. So. […] I think that when you think of death you don't miss anyone. You know it's like, it doesn't' .. matter. And then you always are reminded of death .. when … when you lose too much. And too often. So missing is when you've had .. when you have a possession, and you have a relationship with that possession. Personal thing. But when you don't have those possessions any more or you lose them too often, you cease to miss them.
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