Why don’t Long Distance Relationships work?

Today, relationships have become more important than anything else in our lives. Be it family, money, academics in some case or maybe even time. People don’t care about time or money now, because as they say, “The poor get poorer and the rich get richer”. Similarly relationships at times become situations like changing clothes every day. A few change girlfriends/boyfriends like they change clothes daily. According to me, that is one of the most heartless things to do. Such people either have money in their pockets or are tired of being in relationships.

However, long distance relationships, back in the 1700s and so on and so forth, did exist, but since there wasn’t technology, there were letters and pigeons, owls, doves as messengers. And not just the bird messengers but also more romance. I’m talking about healthy romance, where the man would sing songs for the woman, and the woman would woo her man with her beauty. Where, he would come at her window and throw stones to call her, and where she would decorate herself with flowers on her head in order to impress him. Back then, all women played hard to get.

Whereas, in the 21^st century there are no letters, birds, songs, nor flowers. Now is the time where technology speaks. Skype, Whatsapp, Viber, E-mail, SMS, MMS, so on and so forth. Life has gotten so easier now that even love happens through the internet. You have a tiny data card, and you can have the entire world into your hands. You can spy on your lover, sitting on the other side of the world, or you can have feelings for someone you've never seen.

Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. are now used more for getting to know new single people. Even though, long distance relationships isn't bad, but why find someone who’s on the other side of the country/world when the population is 7 billion. For me, I am in a long distance relationship too, so I know what the pros and cons are. One of the most important advantages is that you have your space. No matter what happens, you have your amount of freedom and you still have a choice whether to be loyal or not. One of the major disadvantages is that you can’t meet each other everyday or whenever you want. You might have to plan a visit, in order to meet. Another disadvantage is that when you’re probably low and depressed and want your lover to hug you and be with you physically, at the moment. He/she might not necessarily be able to fulfill that need.

In conclusion, I’d like to say that, everything has pros and cons and so does a long distance relationship. It’s always up to the people how they want to make it work. If they know that things won’t work out, or aren’t sure one tiny bit, then I’d suggest y’all not to fall into this. If you really want to work it out, then you should go for it, and not wait until it’s too late.