Distance

They say "Distance makes the heart grow fonder". They also say "out of sight, out of mind". Both are equally true.

• A guy meets his girlfriend just about once or twice a year since they live in different cities. What is it that makes a guy look for the perfect spatula for his girlfriend since he saw her cook italian food once? Everytime he steps out to shop his eyes dont stop searching for something, anything that she would like.


• A father is in the middle of a party which has been thrown in honour of his achievement. What makes him call up his son living in a different city just when the band starts to play 'Hotel California' since he knows the son likes that song?

The simple answer is Love. In the above 2 situations the answer is definitely true, unadulterated love. But in other cases there is a not so simple answer as well. Whenever someone dear to us goes away(geographically), the relationship comprises mostly of the short conversations every couple of days. You dont get to meet for long intervals and the conversations are all specific and not pointless or random. The relationship becomes a figment of your imagination. It is what you percieve it to be. It is ruled by what one feels in those moments of being away. It is how many times you live the memories in the past over and over again in your head. You keep em alive. They bring a smile to your face every time. And the person becomes the one responsible for these memories. But is it real? You dont know if the same things remind the same person of you and the memories together.

Its all in the mind.