"In earlier times, leaving was defined by distance, but now it is defined by
silence. Everybody everywhere is just a text away, a phone call away.
Relationships are often defined by the frequency and intensity of
communication between two people.
The person moving on and changing a relationship no longer makes a
one-time choice to physically go to another town. He makes a series of minute-by-minute
decisions to not text, to not email or call, to turn intense
communication into sporadic conversation or no communication. His name
was once constant on his friend’s phone screen, but now it is rare and the void
is a wound."
