Can you fill space? - by shaahana - rambles

An attempt to understand and accept the transient nature of relationships

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!” Edvard Munch, Separation 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…

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