Going the Distance

Distance: The extent of space between two objects or places; an intervening space. etc etc Distance learning has always been fine with me. It is but a method to further equip ourselves with knowledge conveniently here then there. In fact, it was what this cheapo person now typing the post did some 2 years ago, as away to save cash in learning near. Distance loving, on the other hand is a completely different matter and a no no in my most humblest of all opinions, at least for myself. I see my cousin spending time on emails, sending them before she sleeps, sending them in the middle of her sleep - she wakes up in the middle of night sending emails, sometimes I wonder if she's juz sleepwalking - seeing him once every few months or so, never sharing regular tender moments. It all makes me wonder what is it exactly worth, this long distance loving thingy. I see my airen twice a week - most of the time - talk, message regular. Grab him out when I'm down, grasp his hand when he's out. I cannot imagine crying alone without his shoulder to lend nearby - that is unless he is the one making me cry. It does help too that he lives not so far, Tampines for me would have been a long distance relation. I applaud those who has the courage to go through what I would never. It pains to wonder how my cousin must have felt on special days, birthdays and such when he is closer to the other side of the causeway and down several hundred miles while we take the bus and meet in about half an hour. My brother, I was told broke up with an ex girlfriend coz she had stayed too far away. But since he's now divorced with a daughter and has a match made with an Indonesian, perhaps distance wasn't always the factor. Love is.