In "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" Ocean Tells How In Vietnamese The Word For Missing Someone And Remembering

In "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" Ocean tells how in Vietnamese the word for missing someone and remembering someone is same...So when his mother asked if he misses her, he flinched thinking she said "Do you remember me?"

I was just sitting and thinking about my own mother tongue. In Hindi too, the word for missing and remembering is the same "याद" (Yaad) the only difference is the change of verb and sentence formation and that's how we know if the speaker is talking about missing someone or remembering someone; "मुझे तुम्हारी याद आती है।" "मैं तुम्हे याद करता हूँ।" But the sentence is always talking about remembrance. Now that I see, there is no literal translation for "I miss you" because we don't have the word for "missing" someone, all we ever do is remember them and with the memories, they are never 'missing' they are with us through that remembrance. It's like saying "I am not sad thinking about how you are not here anymore but rather I'm remembering the times you were here and I wish things were the same." It makes sense how the word "याद" also refers to 'memories'.

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There are all kinds of teachers that come in our lives; teachers who have a passion for teaching, teachers who are in just for the pay, teachers who aren't good at teaching but still try their best, teachers who do just the bare minimum, teachers who are young, teachers who are old, teachers who leave a lasting impression in our minds, teachers who think of us as their kids, teachers who are just not good people at all, teachers who are good people, teachers who are funny, teachers who are boring, teachers who focus more on their students rather than their own kids, teachers who don't care at all, teachers with so many stories.

It's fascinating that how majority of our teachers never even dreamed of being a teacher in the first place, they just ended up being one because they couldn't become what they wanted to be. They are people with broken dreams in a room full of dreamers.

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