To The Long-Distance Friend I Wish Was Here
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To The Long-Distance Friend I Wish Was Here

Sometimes, when we are too busy to have real conversations, we just tell each other that we love each other and miss each other, and hope that the other is doing well.

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To The Long-Distance Friend I Wish Was Here
Aracelia Skridulis

Okay, so, I don’t want to seem ungrateful to the friends of mine who I see on a semi-regular basis, who live closer to me than my long-distance friends — you guys are so important, too. Truly, you are the highlights to the everyday and the mundane, and you’re especially important to me considering I am here in this state, hours away from family and the people I spent high school with.

But I just want to take a moment to focus on my few long-distance friends.

Because of the nature of long-distance friendships, sometimes we can get busy and it might be a few weeks or sometimes even months between talking, and definitely months between seeing each other. Despite this, we are still so close, and in a way, closer, because we don’t have the time to bother with formalities and small talk. We can jump right in to the good stuff.

Sometimes, when we are too busy to have real conversations, we just tell each other that we love each other and miss each other, and hope that the other is doing well. It is a small thing, but for me, these interactions give me so much support. It is so good to know that I have a friend out there that has my back no matter what, even if you are far away.

In a way, being far away, even though it sucks, kind of makes our friendship better, in a way. It really proves that we are here for each other, I think.

When I do have the opportunity to come visit, even though so much inevitably changes, I always feel like our friendship hasn’t. It feels like we can just effortlessly pick up where we left off. There is never enough time, of course, but the time we do get together is something that I cherish.

Anyway, this little rumination is my way of saying I appreciate you and I value and love you, in case I do not say it enough. I wish I could have visited you on this upcoming holiday, but alas, such is life.

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