"We" don't have to look in order to "see" that "this" is wherever "we" happen to be.

An object is always over there;

The whereabouts of "this" is very precisely here.

An object is only in one place,

Whereas the situation of "this" is ubiquitous.

True, "this" is objectively absent,

But non-objectively "this" is eternally present.

---Wei Wu Wei