✈ Lᴏɴɢ Dɪsᴛᴀɴᴄᴇ Lᴏᴠᴇ Aғғᴀɪʀ ✈

I know a lot of people having a long distance relationship.  My father went to Saudi Arabia and to Malaysia for years before I was born, giving a four-year gap between me and my elder brother.  And now one of my brothers works at a cruise ship travelling to The Caribbean seas, Europe and America and comes home only every eight or nine months.  My fiancé who is from France now works at the French West Indies and every time he pays me a visit he has to travel more than 24 hours all in all.  This arrangement is not easy at all.  It takes a lot of courage, patience, strength and faith on both parties.  I have a lot of friends and office mates who are also in this kind of relationship, some didn't work but most are actually doing great despite the distance.  

When you are far away from the one you love you both have many challenges to face.  The fact of missing each other is one of it.  When something goes wrong to the other you utterly wish you are next to him/her to say "everything's gonna be okay".  On special days you also wish to be with him/her for the celebration.  No matter what the situation is, we always want to be together but all we can do is wait.  Something good about this kind of arrangement is that even if you are already five or ten years together, when you see each other after months or even years of waiting you can still feel the spark!!!  You will both feel so rewarded thinking what you've gone through and a simple hug will make both of you feel better.  Everyday together is a promise to make-up the lost times.  

Alas!! There's "technology" making the world a lot smaller than it actually is.  I can say we are so lucky now because when Papa was away Mama had to wait weeks or even a month for a single letter.  I can't imagine that, I can't imagine a day without an sms or a week without an e-mail.  Yes communication can be costly but relationships are "priceless".  It is very important that we remind our loved ones how much we love them and that we are reminded of how much they love us.  

Being apart momentarily is both very challenging and very rewarding.  The months of waiting is nothing compared to a shared joy once you're together and the lifetime to share in the future.  To all those who can relate to this post, cheers!!!  

Mʏ Fᴀᴄᴇʙᴏᴏᴋ Sᴛᴀᴛᴜs, ᴀ Sʜᴏᴡ Oғғ?

When I opened my Facebook account back in 2007 I only had around 3 friends.  Filipinos barely know this social networking site back then and I never thought it would become as famous as it is now.  It's crazy how people get so crazy about it.  Since it became a trend many of the people I know would post anything they want, status updates, personal videos, pictures...anything.  I myself do these things too.  I remember someone even commented on the number of pictures I post on my Facebook account saying it is too much but I can't help it, I love sharing my photos and my account is set to "private" anyway.  There was a time though that I got connected to strangers, people that I didn't really know personally just because I got hooked with some game applications of the website, in order to play the game I needed to add the other "players" as my friends so we can all have fun..lol.. But it's over, now I'm only connected to those people I really know like family or relatives, friends from school, from work and from the neighborhood.  

When I go online I always open my Facebook account, it's automatic for many people (lol) and I do enjoy the fact that I can get to read many updates from my friends.  It's a nice place to share many things but I have also observed some things that I don't really appreciate so much like some pictures that I find "offensive" or videos that I think are nonsense but the world is not about me and it's a fact so I just have to bear with it.  Status updates though are really something that bothers me because when you post something as a status it is just like saying something to the "world", it's a community out there and there are just some status updates that annoy me.  I don't know why people are not being extra careful when they post something.  Some will post the ordinary foods they ate or they're about to eat, some will post their schedule like "it's 7 o'clock in the morning and I'm still in bed, will be in the office at 10 and then at the mall at 3pm", what the heck?  I mean, you think the world has to know all of it?  Come on!  I have also read some status updates about the "brand" of the milk of her baby or the price of a new gadget.  It's crazy how a person's character is shown on her "Facebook Status".  No wonder why some companies go to this website to do a background check of a prospective employee.

I am not saying I am perfect when it comes to "facebooking" because like I previously mentioned someone is even against the number of albums I have in there.  I guess it's just a matter of perspective and you can't expect everyone to be like you or to use the website like you do.  I just wish that when it comes to "saying" or should I say "posting" something everyone will be more careful.  I am an English teacher and even if I don't have a license yet I am sure that I do still know the "basic grammar rules" and it's funny how many times I've read grammatically wrong posts from a "licensed" teacher for crying out loud.  If you're not sure how to say it in English then might as well say it in the vernacular, after all it's not against the law to use your local language...(just saying) ツ 

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