Long Distant Relationships

Everyone would think that by looking at the title.. "Yea this is all about a boy girl relationship." Well my friend, think again. This could be a close friend or of someone closer, a family member perhaps. But of course, we would not leave out the boy-girl-relationship or the abbreviated 'BGR'.

My mom recently met up with her school friend. This friend was her classmate during secondary school, sharing the good old times, stories and what notorious things they did during lessons or with the teachers. I joined them for lunch and I had to pick up the details of how my life would be if I were to keep in touch with my secondary school friends. I was predicting that this would be exactly the enactment of the future after we have turned 48.

Then I thought to myself that, this might be a good thing once in a while. To do exactly what my mom did. We can't just totally move on away from the past. We must sometimes visit the past when we can and bring back old memories. It does some good to our health as well as of a health book I read a few days back. The way I see this, I look at it as a long distant relationship. It is in the mind that this relationship is distant enough to almost forget someone or a moment in your life that you will have missed.

I am in the midst of going through that process, that I would start forgetting my friends and the jolly good times we did in class together and all the nuisance we did like shooting a rubber band off my geography teacher's arse. That was unforgettable. Right now, I can just reminisce it but to have it replay live, I wouldn't get that kind of memory back. It has become a long distant relationship.

Besides that, talking literally about long distant relationships, it's the other half who lives miles away, let's say in a different country. This kind of relationship is the hardest to remain - to last even. You can keep in touch through email, snail mail, phone, video chat or simply just a small text through any means but that would never work. I guess that is why not many are married this way.

Come to think of it, relationships do get people tangled, committed and worry. I wonder how is it like for someone to have no relationships whatsoever and be free from everyone everywhere. He would only think of himself and not get so deep in anything of bonding. He would enjoy the purest of freedom!