"LDR"
Up until a couple decades ago, long distance communication was difficult. Talking to people on the other side of the world involved waiting weeks for a reply. You had to write a letter and send it out, and it took weeks before it even got to the other person and much more till a reply comes to you.
I remember my grandfather telling me how he about how he was to communicate with my grandmother when he uprooted his family to live on the other side of the world during a difficult time in my country. He told he how every month he'd send a hour long cassette to my grandmother and she'd send one back, just one. It took too much time to send so many times so he had to cram everything he wanted to say to his wife and his young children, who only saw every few months, in one message. He must have felt so alone during the few months when he was in my country, missing his family and the love of his life. Yet, now, the generation of the millennials go ballistic when someone doesn't reply within a few seconds. They complain at how long distance relationships are so difficult, and if it's something they have to face, they give up.
This generation of people, who with one click can hear the voice of their friends and lovers no matter how far in the world, give up on them because they believe you have to be right there, with each other, beside each other. But, that's not what makes a relationship. Distance does not make a relationship. Don't say that distance hinders your relationships with anyone. Hop on a plane, go see them. Take a bus or a train. Call them up. Text them. Don't waste your happiness because it's hard. Go the distance. Do something.
As long as you're looking at the same moon, it should be enough; it is enough.
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