I fly to Vancouver today. Actually, I fly to Vancouver tomorrow, but I start my journey today. I will arrive to a lovely apartment in a hip part of town, next to a yoga studio and a Canadian version of Whole Foods. I'll be 4 blocks from the beach and can take a lovely stroll to my new digs at UBC.
Leo busses to Rio later tonight. He'll be holed up in a cute little one-bedroom in Copacabana, also 4 blocks from the beach. A few streets away, he can enjoy a bowl of frozen açaí or fresh coconut water as he basks in the sea breeze.
All of this would be wonderful if it weren't for the thousands of miles that will separate us, which makes all of this seem rather like two elaborate prisons, hemispheres, continents, and oceans apart.
I had hoped today just wouldn't happen, like some sort of blissful "Groundhog Day" my Saturday would keep repeating until the Canadian Consulate got it "right" and we could step onto that plane together.
Leo and I have never done distance. We've never spent more than a week or so apart. And we certainly have never done high-stakes distance like this. It's terrifying.
We've been consoling each other tucking our heads like little birds into one another's necks. It's so primitive, but we don't have words; we just inhale, trying to breathe each other in, to fill our lungs to carry with us the comforting scent of someone so safe, loving, and familiar as we each step out into the unknown.
<3 Hugs.
ReplyDelete*hugs*
ReplyDeleteSi and I have maintained a long distance relationship for yonks. It's sure as hell not easy, but it certainly is do-able... and when you see each other after months of being apart, and you can't stop grinning like an idiot, you realize it's totally worth it despite all the obstacles.
Hang in there! <3 to you and Leo!
There's really nothing to say to make anything better, but I did long distance for a year and it sucked but it made it that much sweeter to unite :) Boa sorte with your move.
ReplyDeleteCorin,
ReplyDeleteI am keeping you and Leo in my thoughts, and that you two will be back together in the land of pine trees as soon as possible. (That's how I imagine Canada--lots of pine trees!)
6 weeks will fly by like, eh i dont have a good metaphor. but it'll be fast. you'll be so busy and going crazy with being in a new place and seeing your parents in a few weeks that you will blink and it will be Oct. 8th. and Leo, well, he'll be snoozing on Copacabana so it will fly by for him as well!
ReplyDeleteStay strong, sweetie. Big Hug.
ReplyDelete:( Hang in there. The first days are nightmarish and truly awful, but it gets more manageable, although never less painful. :(
ReplyDeleteIt won't be easy, but you'll manage, and like others have said, seeing Leo again after so much time will just be pure bliss! Just become best friends with skype, that's all ;) By the way, I just noticed that you linked to my blog (I usually just read you through google reader so I don't know how long it's been), so thanks!
ReplyDeleteThat last paragraph was a gem.
ReplyDeleteOn the good side--neither one of you is a soldier in a foreign land.