A lot of my peers would say that long-distance relationships don’t work, at least for romance, because the distance is a serious challenge to trust and quality time.
While it’s easy to avoid long-distance romantic relationships by simply refusing to be in one, friendships are much harder to throw away.
As a 27-year-old needy woman, I am not capable of holding a long-term long-distance romantic relationship in any way. If I can’t see someone or interact with someone regularly, I have a massive tendency to forget someone’s existence.
Yet that status quo has been challenged massively in the past month.
My two closest friends, Josh and Kim, have moved away or are moving away from Cebu.
Josh recently moved to Montreal, Canada, while Kim is moving to Rizal in Luzon.
My two friends have been anchors for me socially, mentally and psychologically. For years, we have formed a strong bond that brought us together in our individuality to form a friendship that resembles a family.
While Josh and Kim are not my only friends, (I have a few other friend groups as well), they have been strong advisors for my career, romance and life choices.
So as my two closest friends move forward with their partners to build their lives together, I can’t help but feel just a little bit lonely.
I am very happy because they are very happy, but a little sad because I have to let them go.
Well, of course, they say if you love someone, you have to let them go. So let them go, I shall do it with a genuine heart full of love... but only physically.
I vowed to conquer my weakness of forgetting people’s existence and I will learn to love from a distance.
Even if it means having multiple time zones on my clock, staying awake at midnight just to talk to my friends and intentionally remembering to reach out to them.
I am so lucky to have friends like Josh and Kim who know me and accept my flaws; that is love. Distance is nothing but another flaw love can easily conquer, that I can conquer.
To my friends, Josh and Kim, bon voyage! I’ll see you soon, but I’ll talk to you later. I love you, guys!