David Kernohan
I have met some one who lives 9,200miles away from me. We have been communicating via e-mail and supporting the profit margins of Telco’s. Having a long distance relationship raises many interesting challenges on the nature of love. The distance and separation has its own intensity that has to be managed against the realities and responsibilities of our daily lives. People say to me, ‘but when you finally meet you may decide it won’t work’. That is a risk, yet all of love is a risk. Love is never safe for ultimately love is the opening up of oneself to the possibility of rejection. To accept the pleasures of love, we must also accept the risks.
When stating that it may not work out, this is true of all relationships. The fact that a relationship does not work out does not invalidate the love expressed within the relationship. To the extent love is expressed unselfishly I think, we are reminded of the beauty within the world and within ourselves. It is a good thing to learn to love ourselves a little better than we do and if my love for him even at such a distance makes his world a kinder place, as his love for me makes mine a kinder place then it is worth while.