Dear Marie,

Thinking of how long it's been since we last met often makes me want to hide under the blanket and roll myself up in a ball of "missing you" because of how vulnerable I feel without your presence, then I start wishing that time would accelerate to a point where I can hold you and feel the time freezing.
And even though I know deep down that we'll make it through everything, the thought that we'll face a long period of seeing each other every once in a century overwhelms me most of the time; it makes me think of how, in the face of every single obstacle or hard decision, we tend to complicate things and whine inside like babies, and end up having a much bigger issues than we really have.
All it takes is a few seconds of reasonable thinking to figure out that life is full of such obstacles, and we only make a big deal out of them when we really care about something, which makes us anxious and frustrated, sometimes scared and eventually feeling like we're on the verge of having a nervous breakdown.

None of the "problems" we face is ever what it seems to be. We, under the complex masks of ego and pride, are no more than fragile bits of stardust.
If we choose to see the bright side, then the bright side is what we'll get.
That's what I'll believe in, and that's how I'm going to see things from now on.

With all the love in the world,
Your best friend,
Pierre.

[Photo credit:  Christoffer Relander ]