Absence of God

So the fall never quite made sense to me 'till last night when I read Donald Miller's book Searching For God Knows What. It totally clicked then (and probly other things will click about the same verses many times to come).
It wasn't the presence of sin that made "The Fall", causes our strife, made us have hole in hearts, and makes us yearn to be loved; It's the absence o f God. The Fall of man is the absence of God; He couldn't be around us because we were no longer perfect. Sin (in the abstract form, not action/noun) isn't an actual thing; it's the absence of God's perfection/God's love/Our understanding of God/God in general and us trying to get the feeling back that we had when He was with us: wholeness, completeness, love.
I don't know if that makes any sense to you, but like, it's a totally new perspective for me.
Now, Donald Miller didn't directly talk about that, he just said things that can have that conclusion (the absence of God thing was something I drew from it).
I know that everyone realizes that God was absent after the fall, but I never realized that that is the whole deal. That's why we try to measure up, want love, search for something, try to beat someone to be liked: because God is absent. That's why we're selfish; anything that can get us happier, closer to being respected, closer to that feeling that we're supposed to have when we are truly united with Christ.

Hope that makes a tad bit of sense at least.
Man, God is amazing.