Having

In today's Russian lesson we learned about the verb "to have". In English, there's this idea of "having" meaning this idea of something belonging to me, you, them, etc. When my teacher explained to us the Russian concept of "having", I was touched with tears and something struck hard deep within me. In Russian, something merely "comes into my, your, their world" and there is no real belonging, or at least no belonging in a long term sense--things can leave my, your, or their world as quickly as they enter it. Isn't that so beautiful?

-Makinzie