Can you fill space? - by shaahana - rambles

I sent a text recently … it was something along the lines of: “Hey, I‘m sorry I haven’t texted you in a bit. If you’d like to catch up, I’m just a phone call away!” The nature of my schooling system is that relationships can often be quite transient (platonic and romantic alike). Every few months, we are thrown into a new job, a new city, and new people, and this cycle is repeated through our late teens to early 20s flipping between school semesters and internship semesters. It’s not exactly an environment conducive to building lasting relationships. Some recent learnings: Maintaining individual friendships requires conscious effort and time invested - it requires consistency from both parties. Talking to someone each day results in a far different relationship than catching up once every few weeks (or beyond). There’s a Jenny Han quote that I read in “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,” that is as follows: “When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you

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• Adriana Ceric