I'm assuming you've read a Bible verse or two before now. You won't get it if you haven't lol...
When you fall in love, you become immersed in it.
You look like love. You feel like love. Distance will fool you into
thinking that your love isn't enough. It will tell you that you love
isn't real because you get tired of waiting for their
calls and visits. You aren't patient.
Distance will tell you that your love isn't true
because you get angry (mostly because you miss the hell out of your mate
and don't realize how it's affecting you) and say things you probably
don't mean. You aren't kind.
It will make you
wonder where they are when they haven't called yet or who they're with
when they don't answer. It will make you question their platonic
relationships with beautiful people. You're jealous.
Distance will have you on social networks touting
how awesome your mate is because you just gotta let somebody else know.
You're proud and boastful.
Distance will help you romanticize the hell out of
your mate because that helps you get from visit to visit. You end up
feeling like your relationship is unfuckwithable. You're arrogant.
It gave you the benefit of acting a complete damn fool without worrying about having to face them. You acted unbecomingly.
You prefer your mate be the one to call, to text,
to FaceTime, to travel hundreds of miles. You're selfish.
Distance gives
you that space to think about and react to that post, that text, that
tweet. You've been provoked.
It will give you that alone time to remember the
time your lover was human and wronged you. You're taking into account a
wrong suffered.
Distance will have you excited about your lover
sneaking into town to see you while neglecting (and, possibly, lying to)
everyone else that cares about them just so you can enjoy one another.
You rejoiced in wrongdoing.
It will make you feel like you can't take the
perceived neglect, the assumed lack of attention; that you can't deal
with not being able to literally kiss and make up or go out on a spur of
the moment date. You can't bear. You don't want
to endure.
Does any of this mean that you weren't truly in
love, that relationship wasn't meant to be? No. It means you're human.
The love never ends. The thing is, you can't BECOME love. God is love.
Do you think you can be that?
Because you've been told that you and the person
you love should be able to get through these things together while
hundreds of miles apart, when you feel like you can't, you're told your
love wasn't real. When both of you are too afraid
to be the one who leaves everything and everyone they know to take a
chance on another human, your love wasn't true. The reason many
relationships survive is because those people truly love each other and
have the opportunity to look into each other's eyes
and feel each other's warmth and know they can make it another day.
We battle with our needs, wants, and
susceptibilities as humans, while trying to meet these God-like
requirements. When in a long distance relationship, we need to be able
to analyze and understand our needs because the greatest obstacle
shouldn't be trying to create a perfect love from 500 miles away. We've
got bigger fish to fry, like building enough trust and faith to close
the distance and truly enjoy love. Don't let distance fool you into
walking away from The One. Let it help you realize
how much you can't bear to be away from them.
