Every Day Will Be Like A Holiday - William Bell
Most of my romantic relationships have involved at least some months of loving one another across long distances.
Postcard lovers who only see each other on holidays.
every day will be like a holiday when my baby comes home
It's a strange precious thing, never knowing the drab day-to-day of your most important people because your presence pulls them out from it, trying to saturate each staccato moment with connection. I think all private relationships develop some shared secrecy—
pet names and injokes— but long distance lends itself to a very concentrated mutual attention, such that you almost believe that you'll
never have to worry about sitting by the phone
when she gets here I'll never be alone
and it becomes possible to imagine that, even after you close your distance and seeing each other becomes ordinary
everyday will be like a holiday.