Relationships Over Distance
How Far Is Too Far?Relationships Over Distance
The world is getting smaller at an alarming rate and this seemingly makes the long distance relationship easier. There are a lot of different factors that make a long distance relationship way more feasible in today’s world than ever before. The world of Skype and the internet has taken the physical distances between people and condensed them down into a few clicks of the mouse.
Before the internet and long distance phone plans, people who moved far away were limited to a few visits and physical correspondence with letters if they wanted to keep in touch. It seems inconvenient when you think of a world that didn’t allow for instantaneous communication but it also sheds some thoughts on a more romantic time. One where if people wanted to keep their romance alive, they did so through long letters filled with loving words and wishes for the future. The internet has really closed that physical gap and the time gap.
Instead of getting a letter every couple of weeks explaining the general condition and feelings of your significant other, now you’re up to date by the minute like they’re standing next to you all the time. If you’ve managed to wrangle up the whole lot of the internet networking tools, the extent of your communication has grown to be rather limitless. You can leave messages for each other, send e-mails, call each other for barely anything with Skype,facebook,friendster, and it will be like the two of you never left each other’s side.
Does all that electronic business really take the place of real human contact? It does make the distance a lot more bearable but there is nothing in the world that takes the place of being with your special person. Once you get father than a day’s drive away you still find yourself in a real long distance relationship. You need to rely on your new found technology to let the two of you feel close as if you don’t have as many miles between you because it will take a lot of stress on the both of you. It will be fun to talk to each other on web cams and e-mail back and forth as much as you want at first; however, as with all things the honeymoon will soon end and you will really need to dig down deep inside yourself.
What you’re digging for are those moments that brought you together in the first place. Those small elements of magic that make humans (well some humans) cling to committed monogamous relationships. The feelings that make seeing someone a handful of times a year and experiencing most of the gems of each other’s everyday lives worth it. You’re setting yourself up to trade in those small sparks and quiet victories for those big victories. The victories that lie in the way your heart skips when you see that special someone walk down from the airport gate and the magic in realizing what it truly means to make the most of the time you have. so many kind of relathionship, this is relationship at work
June 22nd, 2009 at 5:04 am
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