There's no presence to sense, no familiar whiffs of scents, no one to touch and hold.

After a while it starts to feel like you're an imaginary friend living only in my head, my phone and my PC. I start to question the meaning of being together when we're not really together.

Someone commented to me the other day that she finds long distance relationships not difficult, and even enjoys the freedom of it... But I think really, I don't have the stomach for such arrangements for too long a time.

It's a year of proposals, of hopes amid plans for the future.

It's a year of adventure, of exploration and a new life in foreign places.

It's a year of self-discovery, of realizing that self-sufficiency and leaning on others is inexplicably inter-twined.

It's a year of spiritual growth, of peace and rest.

Ah.. I know it's a year that I will look back on again and wish that every year could be as amazing.