LDR is not a disease.

LDR is not a disease, my dear. It is not something to be scared of. Neither is it contagious and deadly.

At first, it did not scare me much since distance is something that we have had ever since our day one. We went in the same high school and we’re classmates until our senior year, and ‘us’ began when we separated sections. After graduation, we went on different schools: He on the northern part of the Philippines and I on the South. Not long after college classes began, he transferred to a school near mine; he went back to high school through an international school. The following year, I transferred from my first campus to another as planned and expected. When he graduated high school (for the second time), he went abroad for college. This time, the distance is not the northern and southern parts of the country but the ends of the world; we are now approximately 8, 027 miles apart. And I’m talking miles here. Thousands of miles apart!

He and I are distanced from each other but the relationship is too flexible, too easily stretched out that it adjusts itself with whatever circumstances come about. Love transcends space, distance and time. Nevertheless, I am not saying that being away from each other is as easy as ABC. Believe me; it is way too far from being easy. At times, memories flood in and you just can’t help but miss his presence and wish he’d be there beside you right at that moment. At times, you feel it’s unbearable, too heavy for you to carry. But you have to think that you are not carrying it alone, someone’s helping you and you have to help him as well. You tend to break down, but you don’t, because you know that you are strong enough. And the thought that somewhere, somehow, someone thinks of you and feels the same way makes you feel that that someone also depends on the strength you keep and it just makes you tougher, to stand alone mightily for that one moment. And life for the both of you goes on…

So when two people love each other, really really love each other, but they just can’t seem to get it together, when do you get to that point where enough is enough?

Never.