When you’re not face to face, when you’re far away, you can create your own false barriers to block a chance at happiness because you’re afraid of the “what if’s”; the complications; the lingering disappointment or fear created from past relationships, even the fear of what something new might lead to because of that past. Every relationship presents a risk, but the real risk is the other person. It’s knowing that person is reliable, genuine, honest, just worth the risk that matters. But it’s also believing enough in who you are, believing you bring enough to the table that you are worth the risk in return. Accepting that someone feels we are worth it makes us acknowledge a connection, something that has nowhere to go but closer.