Almost-fully serious post

Especially at 20, a long distance relationship is really one of most ill-advised situations you can get yourself into. At 20, you have probably never felt or looked better, you're full of bravado and energy, you want to get out there and...just do something. At 20, you can still date 18 year-olds and not look like too much of a creepy bastard because as we know it, 18 is the sacred age for girls when they have just, for a lack of a better word, ripened.

Hence, it's difficult to settle down comfortably into a steady relationship, much less one that only allows your partner and you to actually see each other less than half of the time. When you finally get to meet him/her, you'll have some of the best times of your life because it feels so good to have your blue balls finally cured, metaphorically and physically. But most of the time, you'll be spending hours on the phone, trying to recall what it feels like to have him/her by your side again.

And that's if you two have a good amount of faith in each other and the relationship itself. If you don't, God help you because it's so easy to just sneak another person into your life and not have your partner knowing anything about it. It's also too easy and natural, even, to imagine the other party sneaking another person into his/her life for romantic purposes.

Distrust starts to arise as you listen to how he/she has made some new friends who are really fun and awesome and then he/she describes this one person in more detail than the rest. "Oh, he's got a great sense of humour and can you believe he did this and that today? Oh God, what a funny guy, he almost reminds me of you sometimes."

Wait, what?

"Oh please, he's just a friend."

Alright, let's see how long that lasts.

"What are you talking about? Can you stop being so paranoid?"

And there you go, another quarrel caused by strain of the relationship. I believe in not doing whatever that's not making you feel good and logically, a long distance relationship's cons outweigh its pros by such a huge margin that I wonder why I'm doing it, almost all the time.

But it's a good thing, that I can still think emotionally and when I do, I happen to be a huge sucker for this face: