And now I tell you openly/ You have my heart so don’t hurt me/ You’re what I couldn’t find
Tedious, painful, and probably not worth the time and effort you put into it. That’s also how you describe a long distance relationship, which is what Going the Distance is about.
… Sometimes true, but the effort is still so worth it in the end
Ok, maybe. But what if, this is just hypothetical, you meet the guy of your dreams and he’s everything you ever wanted,* but he’s going to be gone for 60% of the for the forseeable future. Also, he will be tired and spent for 50% of the time he is around, and apologetic and sweet about it but still, spent. What if, in addition to all of this, you can’t do math good enough to figure out what percentage of the time he will be, like, there?
Yeah, I get that they made a movie called Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind in which this question was posed: If you knew it would be difficult and eventually totally fucked, would you still be with someone you loved? And the answer was yes, that you would still be with this person. True, too, that the above math is not a crystal ball, but an educated guess of what will happen, and that anything else presumably could. Still, this is IRL, where bozo-red hair never fades so gracefully and trains to Montauk often have the bathroom broken on them and smell so potently of poo that no one would ever dream of approaching a handsome stranger all flirty-like. So what if you had the chance to cut and run, knowing what you know, which is that you love him, but it very well might be fucked?
I felt I needed to end with a question so you could visualize me closing my pink clamshell macbook and running out to hail a cab in a pair of fuzzy manolos.
*Everything you wanted, that is, as far as you can tell. Since, in this obviously not-hypothetical scenario, your relationship track record of finding the guy who is everything you wanted is 0 for like, 7.
