A misstep is an inconvenient. A miss of whichever means and whatever kind is probably not much or of nil effect until it gets personal. That is me-centric to the core and outright selfish.
Example
Think of an exam you prepared so much for, and missed it on some ridiculous reasons such as the alarm didn’t sound to wake you up. Or mishap of venue, or time: otherwise regarded as miscommunication since venue and time are things-as-lthey-are, not causes in themselves. In other words, if I went to an exam at south front 20.2 at 11:50am when the 2-hour exam (10am to 12pm) takes place at north front 2.20, the fault cannot lie with the venue and / or the time.
A miss shared heals.
The lack of our own kinetic energy shifts to a situation where potential energy gives us a sense of life-in-motion, much less in degree and frequency of stationary free-fall; to be more exact, what feels like perpetual free float in the absence of planetary gravity, where the “free” refers to no controllable link to things in the mind or external that directly or indirectly “take over” the being-yourself.
The passing of the head of the family might be such a massive event that children set apart decades-long grievances and differences to walk in the same direction, if not also to share meal at the same table. Such grief is both personal and communal, more personal because it is communal, and more communal because it is personal. The “miss” felt and understood by the personal and communal takes on exponential proportion.
To be continued.
