Long Distance Relationships.
Long dreary relationships. Long love traveling relationships. Long distinguishable relationships…
The key word here is the second word, one which you can replace with any other fancy word on the dictionary. in truth, the problem with the word “distance” is that it pertains to a gap in between two people, quantified by space and time. A concept which bypasses the idea of a relationship in the first place.
What relationship concept?
Your heart on your sleeve. Somebody calling you babe. A wholesome feeling of togetherness. It’s having to love someone regardless if they’re fat, they’re evil, they’re irrational – regardless of whether they’re right or their wrong. A novel test of whether you love someone is quoted from one of my favourite Meg Ryan movies:
Maggie: When I was a kid, my father had this dog that started to get all weak and sickly. He takes it to the vet, he examines it and says a maggot must have laid eggs in the dog’s butt. The baby maggots have crawled up, now they’ve started to grow, and eventually they’re gonna eat the dog alive from the inside. He says it should be put to sleep, because it’s an old dog anyway. But father won’t do it. He takes the dog home, he puts it on the bed, he reaches up into the dog, picking out the maggots with his finger, one by one. It takes him all night, but he gets every last one. That dog outlived my father. That’s love, Sam. - from Addicted to Love [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118556/quotes]
I know, I know, it’s not the best visual, especially if you’re expecting peaches and cream, but THAT is love. It’s painful, and nerve wrecking, and not so pretty, and amazing at the same time. It makes us do stupid things for our loved “ones”. You just love them. You reduce yourself to a being that simply exists and is inspired by this person, and you ask nothing back.
You … just are.
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