For a while, I was the friend that didn't have a boyfriend so when my taken friends would complain that they missed their boyfriend that they saw every day in high school I just didn't understand it. I didn't understand that when you finally care about a person so much you long to see them every day. I didn't understand how if you didn't see that one person for a day it left you feeling empty and honestly a little sad. I didn't understand how they needed to see that person to feel better.

Now I understand it all and more. Leaving college and saying goodbye to all the friends you've made is hard enough, but leaving the person you fell in love with is even harder. Going from seeing your love every day to not seeing them consistently for 3 months is quite the change. Having a bad day while at college is very different from having a bad day at home. Having a bad day at college means that you won't even have to explain what happened because he will just know that you don't want to talk about it and that you just want to be held.

Having a bad day at home means that you have to type out everything that happened and there isn't anyone there to hold you at the end of all of it. Long distance means that communication relies on technology which we all know is a very poor way to relay feelings. There are constant misunderstandings that happen because you can't always detect sarcasm, anger, sadness and so on in words on a screen and you can't see what the person is feeling.

One of the worst parts about long distance is the fact that the person you're dating almost seems like a dream when you aren't together. Sometimes you forget just how real they are because you haven't seen their smile, heard their laugh, or listened to their heartbeat in so long.

Although it may be the worst part it is also the best part because if you feel like you can't live without this person you know that you are in a good relationship. I didn't really believe in the phrase "distance makes the heart grow fonder" until I was living it. You long for the other person in a way that is different from just wanting something. You long for them in a way that is too hard to describe here, but someday you will feel just what I'm talking about.

The moment you reunite everything seems right again. You see the smile, hear the laugh, and listen to their heartbeat and you remember everything you missed about them and realize that they are very much real. You realize that you need this person and there isn't any amount of distance that could keep you apart. You realize that even though you were apart, your hearts still feel the same way about each other creating this little piece of completeness.