Reminding You To Breathe

The hardest things about distance aren't always what you'd think.

It's hard to wake up every day alone, or come home to an empty apartment that really isn't quite home. Remembering your favorite smile with that one photograph. Never completely sure when the next e-mail or phone call will come...though when they do, it's just about the greatest thing ever. All of this, though, you can learn to handle, and just keep looking forward.

The worst is when one of the most important people in your life needs you. Only he's thousands of miles away.

When you can't be his sounding board, or hold him and remind him that things will get better. And they will.

It's about the worst kind of helplessness.