To know something's distinctiveness

I like periodically practising loss: imagining destruction, disasters, death to reduce their effect on me. From things, to pets, to people, I trace the outlines they would leave behind, and reflect on their distinctive characteristics. Who would I be without them? What would I miss? How would I describe them? Who would I have been if I had never encountered them? Sacha Chua 2014-08-13 When I come back from this reflection, I feel so much more appreciative and patient. Life is so short, and we may have to return what was loaned to US unexpectedly To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have and you, on your no need of part, have no need of me. To I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. then we shall tame me, But if need each other. To me, you you you. you, will be you, Unique in all the world. To be unique in all the world... I shall Antoine de Saint-Exupéry THE LITTLE PRINCE