long-distance

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onto today’s topic: long-distance 🛩️ 

my love language across all kinds of relationships is quality time. i love spending time with the people i love. memories, inside jokes, and closeness come so much easier when experiences are lived with one another.

i miss being physically close to my best friends and family, and it has finally sunk in that things won’t ever be the same again. sure, they can return to when i go home over breaks, but now things have switched around. being back in toronto is the temporary part, not elsewhere. 😞 

while i was traveling, it hadn’t sunk it because i knew my gap year had an end date. school feels more transitionary. i’m transitioning into a new phase of my life where some pieces will stay the same, but not my daily life of greeting my mom in the living room with a hug or seeing my best friends for paint nights.

i miss the closeness that long-distance can never replicate.

but i sure as hell can try my hardest. 💘 

the key to maintaining a friendship or close relationship while distance keeps you a thousand kilometers away is still being involved in each other’s lives. i don’t just mean periodic life updates — those get boring really quickly. show your new dorm room, plan trips for when you’ll see them again, and call them when you’re thinking of them. that kind of excitement keeps a relationship alive, rather than a chore to upkeep.

i love my people.

long distance requires effort, and ‘low maintenance’ isn’t a good excuse for allowing a friendship to fizzle out.

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