LDR

The easiest way to describe a long distant relationship is a constant countdown. Whether I’m counting down the days until I see him again, or whether I'm savouring every second that I’m with him, it's just a constant balance of excitement and anticipation. And even with the dreadful distance, LDR's can have their positives. There's more time for you to concentrate on your career, studies, your passions, you'll have more time with friends, family, and you get to become independent within your relationship, so you'll never be a person who just disappears from everyone else when they fall in love. And even with all that behind you, you will still experience loneliness and there’s no doubt about it. When you've had a bad day there's nothing worse than knowing you can't just hide in his arms or even hold his hand or even see his smile to make everything better. But then you come to appreciate phone calls and the power of technology a lot more. And even if the call only lasts a minute, it's just beautiful to hear his voice and it's still crazy to me that just hearing him laugh over the phone can still give me butterflies.

LDR's can be hard, but there is no feeling that can describe what I feel when I see him on the other side of the station and once he’s picked me up and hugged me for a while I know that the weeks apart have been worth it. Every time I see him I feel like I’m falling in love all over again. And the little things like eating pizza in our underwear or getting caught in the rain just become adventures now because everything becomes special when I’m with him. The point of me writing this wasn’t for you to start craving a relationship or make you feel jealous for not being in one. It was to encourage anyone out there that there about to make that LDR commitment with someone that they should just go for it.