I personally don't think a long-distance relationship can work....
Life's too short, anyway. If you wanna be with someone, go be with them. All that stuff we accumulate that we think matters, and that job that we hold so dear... none of that stuff really matters, does it?
I hope my life is judged by how well I lived it, and how well I loved, rather than by where I lived, or how, or by how much stuff I accumulated, or by how much money I made for my boss or some stockholder somewhere.
I've reached a stage in my life (maybe the onset of a midlife crisis? Or perhaps the conclusion of one?) where I believe that I'd gladly walk away from what little I've got to chase the experience of one great lasting love.
Life is a fleeting breath that could be taken from us in an instant... it's my opinion that the opportunity to truly love and be loved is so rare as to make anything else we think is important be recognized as inconsequential. If I thought I had an opportunity for something so precious with a person far away, then I'm going to put the distance aside and find a way to be with that person.
Distance is easy to overcome, but time - time is our most precious commodity. Every minute that passes is instantly gone forever, and can never be relived or repossessed. Our time is all we have, and to share mine with someone wonderful is time best spent. I have no interest in wasting a second of it where something so important as my heart is concerned.
Thus wanes the simple ideas of a person who can't seem to make a close-distance relationship function, let alone a long-distance one, so it's probably best that no one pays attention to anything I say.
-david
