Friends you can't hug

During our lives we meet tons of people and we make lots of friends. There are several kinds of friends, but in the end it all comes down to two kinds: friends you have meet in real life and friends you have made on the internet. 

Some years ago telling someone you had met someone on the internet would get you all kind of strange stares, it still feels weird to refer to some people I have never met as friends, but they are. During this last year and something I have met many extraordinary people thanks to Twitter, thanks to the writing community on Twitter. It's funny how some of these friendships started, by replying to someone else and getting caught in conversations that lasted for hours and didn't make any sense. 

Thanks to that I have friends who share silly pictures with me, or slip funny gifs on our conversations. Friends who send me virtual hugs whenever I'm feeling down. Friends who feel happy for me when I have good news. Friends who read my stories, sometimes, and they even share them, if they like them. I also have a friend who worries for me even when she can't be in touch, who knows how I feel, and who gives me the strenght to battle anxiety. And a friend with whom I can share my craziest story ideas and is non-judgemental about them, who posts the best stories ever on his blog, and who is the co-creator of #NaTheWriMo which will help us write the Thesis (somehow). I have friends I haven't talked in a while, and friends I talk almost every day. And a friend I want to talk to every day, a friend who sometimes makes me so mad I never want to talk to again, and at the same time I miss so much that it hurts, a friend with whom I talk about everything I could talk with someone, but that at the same time I don't dare to ask for help, because I feel I'm needy. A friend that makes me hate the distance separing us and who sometimes makes me wonder what would happen if it didn't exist. A friend who has made me better, in a way. 

But in the end, all of them are friends I can't hug even though I wish I could. And I want to thank you all for being my friends and being there for me through the distance. And I just can hold the hope that one day you'll stop being the "friends I can't hug" and become the "friends I can finally hug".