Sunday, September 23, 2007

long distance relationship ( Journal #12 )

I don’t know which topic I want to write for this free journal. However, recently, I am very curious about a relationship, that is, long distance relationship. Long distance relationship can happen to everyone such as friends, family, and couples. But today I want to discuss about the long distance relationship between the lover and friends. Some people believe the long distance relationship, but some of them don’t. Each person has their own perspective. As for me, I don’t really believe that the long distance relationship exists. I mean that yes, the long distance relationship exists yet most of time, the relationship can’t be a real. For example, one of my friends named Helen. Last month she went back to my home country, Taiwan, for visiting her family and friends who had ever studied in the USA. When she met up her friends, she found that there were no common topics of conversations between her and her friends and she also felt a little bit awkward between both of them. When she came back to USA, she started blaming her friends to me. I told her that she shouldn’t blame her friends because as time went on, people’s thinking and feeling would also change. That is a normal procedure about the long distance relationship.

On the other hand, the long distance relationship between couples will also happen. Therefore, their spouse would do anything that they could do to keep the long distance relationship. They would call their spouse or boy/girl friend two or three times a day for controlling the couples’ or spouse’s activities. Besides, when during the vacation, they would try to be with their spouse together even they didn’t have many vacations they could use.


I think that to keep such kind of relationship is too difficult because you have to pay more and more attention to others. I believe that no matter what kind of the relationship is and how painful the memory you have, it would disappear eventually. So how about let us just treasure the people who are around us and value every relationship we have had already. I think that it is more practical than pursue the faraway long distance relationship.

1 comment:

leinster said...

Some people equate proximity with friendship and relationship. My lifestyle dictates many long distance relationships, both with friends and family. They are just as valuable to me, near or far. It is true though, that we have to move on and find friendships wherever we are.