https://archive.rustgeek.me/tags/letting-go/ Recent content in Letting-Go on A Geek's Life Hugo en Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:47:41 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2011/09/05/half-full-half-empty/ Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:47:41 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2011/09/05/half-full-half-empty/ <p>Breaking up has its perks - especially when there was the small matter of a six hour difference and 3,000 plus miles. On the plus side, the need to remember birthdays (I sucked majorly at this, which probably added to my being kicked to the kerb), answer phone calls at odd hours of the day and be a pillar of strength to someone finally vanishes, and one is free to pursue other interests. On the flip side, the months of getting to know someone from the ground up are then tossed away, as though all meaning were trivial. Only after a while does the real cost register - long periods that were once filled with sharing the minutiae of life are suddenly filled with solitude; solitude which has the potential to bend one&rsquo;s mind and numb it into a stupor.</p>