Distance

[lhexa]

On the astronomic scale, distances are vast, and on the atomic scale, distances are vast. But on our scale, things can be near or far. It suggests a limit to the application of metaphors from physics.

It was with horror that I listened to a certain girl tell me that she felt a close connection with me, after I had listened to her troubles and offered some shallow advice. I felt as distant as ever, and I had already figured out that I wouldn't be able to give the help she desperately sought; we did not commute.

I had been in her situation myself, actually, though I more reasonably expected a final rejection by the woman to whom I confessed my problems, rather than a crossing of the distance. How odd to think that for a short period of time she and I could both diagonalize me.