I Hope to See Him Again Soon

2019

This series is about a person who I became very close with over the course of a few months earlier this year. But he longer lives in this country, and I have no idea if or when he will return. Since he left, I have felt a great sense of loss and uncertainty, not knowing if or when I will see him again, and also not knowing exactly what our relationship was or will become. I have, as a result, created distance between myself and others, as I have begun to shut myself off from the rest of the world. I have experienced emotional isolation, a lack of focus, and a deep longing for the intimacy we had built together. I have also relied more heavily on other friends, clinging to some like a child to its mother. I rely so deeply on the emotional connections I build with people through physical closeness that without it, I feel a great sense of loss.