So your space-saving love officially collapses before battery-saving mode. Heart is still beating, but phone is not. Your girlfriend is also no less "persistent". Toi texted: "I miss you so much that I can't sleep.
The next morning, I posted a story: A bowl of steaming beef pho, with the line: "Remembering my love". Friend "còm": "Remembering you or remembering pho?" She dropped a heart: "Both are my great love". After reading, you find yourself on par with the bowl of pho.
Once you went on a business trip for a month. First week: "Have you slept yet?", "What did you eat?", "Do you miss me?" Second week, it's reduced to just liking, and the third week, it's just "like" more than liking... Fourth week, sometimes you even forget to like.
By then, you don't know if love is stable or... automatically updated to a silent version. There are video calls where two people look at each other, each doing their own thing, you surf TikTok, she answers other messages, occasionally looking up and asking: "Are you still there?" "Yes, are you". A very online presence.
But then, also in those moments of separation, people begin to realize what is real. If you still want to keep each other, just a very small sentence: "What did you eat today?", "I'm going home late, remember to go to bed early".
No need for phone calls that run out of battery, no need for oaths that sound like movie trailers, just need to still have the habit of thinking about each other, even when there is nothing to say, still send each other a stupid meme at 2 am, still take pictures of the rainy sky and ask: "Is it raining there?" even though we know clearly that we are in two different cities.
Long-lasting love is not about never being apart, but even if you are apart, there is still a reason to come back, even just through a very normal text message. And if being apart for a moment is a way to always have both heart, habit, and patience, then that is not long-lasting love, it is a relationship... battery dead and no one bothers to recharge.
You met him after 3 months, smiled meaningfully, and said you've moved to another girl, this girl has a very strong battery and wifi is always available.
