distance...

What is distance? Let us allow a definition of many sorts. First is literal distance. Distance of the physical sort. Very far away, or very near. The great abundance of distance, or the severe lack of it. This type of distance is very practical in application. Namely, people use it to keep undesirable stuff from them, people use it to make money by transporting a whole crapload of people/animals/inanimate objects across said distance, because other people would find it inconvenient to do so. There's a branch of science, namely quantum physics, that deals with packets of energy and how they transverse space in amounts of time approaching zero, also known as teleportation. Very interesting is teleportation. Here's a short aside on the practical application of teleportation:

Teleportation is based on the concept of instantly transferring matter from point A to point B, without crossing the area between the two. The most practical way of doing this is to destroy the original, and produce an exact copy at the destination at the same precise moment. Or, it could be a literal transmuting of matter into energy and then back into matter again, and since energy in this form would travel at the speed of light, it would make travel over insane distances very practical. The only problems would involve the placing of the receiver on the other end, and the dissipation of the energy. Imagine, you could reach the other end missing your head. Coolness. If we follow the concept of destroying the original and creating an exact copy, the applications are even more infinite. Hell, we could skip the destroying part and just continue creating copies. That would equate infinite resources. Since the only way to really recreate an exact copy is to do it with subatomic particles to make all permutations of elements possible, that means you can just continue making copies. The only problem here being the immense amount of energy required to do so. Teleportation in general would also make humans immortal, at least where age is concerned. Since it is a reconstruction of the original, that means some sort of software or program would need to be designed to rebuild the original. By altering the information, we can basically edit out any medical flaws in a person. This would make surgery of any sort possible, as well as imagine the infinite fixes we could do with our physical appearance. Murder would also be very easy and untracable. Just teleport the guy's head to Timbuktu!

Back to topic, distance is useful. Very. It makes the heart grow fonder. It takes us away from our troubles. It makes so many things seem desirable out of context. It can also hurt. Like being very far from the one you love. Like seperating you from your goal. Like tearing apart that which was not meant to be placed at a great distance. My physical distance with Evon is a serious serious issue. Like, we hardly see each other enough given the very full schedules. That alone would have kept a suitable distance. Given now that I don't have a car, and borrowing one is extremely troublesome, the physical seperation is quite an obstacle. Of course, we make up for this by being extremely close to each other when in contact, like give about 10^-7 m away from each other. Not even light gets trough the gap, lolz.

The next type of distance is emotional/social distance. They're not exactly the same, true, but they're similar in execution. This is the metaphorical closeness between people. Common sense tells that the closer you are to a person, the better your relationship with that person, and vice versa. However, this is not necessarily true. You may be close to a person, but your relationship could be like crap. I'd describe closeness as a measure of familiarity rather than relatioship status. This one I have felt mostly the bad side of, although I have never really seen why. I haven't really had a bad life, but somehow it was just bleak, at least where my interactions with individuals of the same species are concerned. I never really realised it at all during my younger days, but I noticed the full scale of it after the fact. I'd say it's improving significantly now, but it's not really good compared to the universal golden standard. Maybe it's just that some people are built to be loners.

This has been one long crapload of nonsensical crap. For the sake of writing something, maybe, I don't know. My writing has been on a downward spiral. And this is the only thing that I've got going for me. Is it a sign of the end? Who knows. It could be a new beginning. Or not.

Jin out.