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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

The Distance Between Us

Sometimes distance is a good thing. It can pad me from feeling the raw pain of family tragedies. I want to be there to help during the bad times, but the distance also acts as an emotional buffer. I can hear about everything, but not seeing it, well, it can make it easier. Sometimes I am grateful about the distance.

During the happy times however, distance is horrible. It is the gap that I can not overcome. It is seeing weddings of cousins through Facebook. It is learning about the birth of a new baby through an email. I want to be there. I want to dance at the wedding and hold that sweet baby. I can't. I will miss it all.

Technology may keep me connected to those I love, but it can never make up for being there.
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Vic · 756 weeks ago

*Hugs* It's awful to have to see these things from afar, but hopefully it makes the times you're over there that much more special. x
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domestic goddesque · 756 weeks ago

I feel your pain; technology pften just makes me feel further from the action :-(

I have Dear so-and-so-ed. i'm sure there's an actual day for this sort of thing, but I wnated to write it whilst i had a child-free windoW!
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SueAnn · 756 weeks ago

So true! I live quite a distance from my family too! In fact, I am missing my nieces wedding! Sigh!
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Bitchin Amy · 756 weeks ago

I have been feeling the distance so much lately. First it was my dad's health scare and then my own. I usually feel connected via emails, facebook, phone, etc. but when you want to hug someone or be hugged, there just isn't a subsitute.

Thank god nobody is having babies over there, though, that would be the hardest thing to miss. BABIES!!!!!
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Jim · 756 weeks ago

you get used to it after a while...try doing it without the internet. When I lived in Poland, the internet was in its infancy. I had never even sent an email before going there or while I was there. Plus I hate actually writing so didn't send too many letters. I ran across a few youtube videos a couple of years ago that one of the students who lived in the same place I did made for his friends and family back here in the US. Such a capability woulda been unheardof when I was there14 years ago. Maybe we'll have the ability to teleport in a few years!
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Captain Dumbass · 756 weeks ago

I love technology, I only wish it would help me get farther away from peo... wait... no, sorry. I misread all that.

Yes. Hard to be away from family and all. Definately.

Oh, and "disown?" I thought you were dead or kidnapped by gypsys or something. : P
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Granny · 756 weeks ago

Don't feel bad. You will be home soon and will get to go to all the "big doings". There will be more weddings and I know for sure there will be more babies.

When we lived in Panama, we didn't have any way to communicate except through snail mail. Modern technology does help a little but there is nothing like being there.

We have a bright sunny day today with the high temperature of 85 degrees.

Hope KiKi's cold is better. Vicks does it every time.

Tell LaLa and KiKi I will be sending them some new books soon and to look for my Halloween card in the mail.

Love to all

Granny
XOXOXO
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Tanya (Bump2Basics) · 756 weeks ago

I'm in a similar situation. Technology (ahhh wonderful skype) makes it so much easier but it's still hard. I try not to think about it too much but "major life events" always bring it into foucs.
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Joanie Mack · 756 weeks ago

I remember having to call my my sister, Peggy when our other sister, Jeanne had her first baby. This was 32 years ago and Peggy and Jim were stationed in Germany.! Peggy was going crazy waiting to hear and finally called home.... only to learn that Jeanne was in labor (she was 3 weeks late!) I did call Peggy several hours later with the good news. And that phone cost me $75!

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