With Love, There's No Making Up For Lost Time

With finite, measureable things you can. Like catching up with that module you were slacking off on the whole sem. It may take a whole lotta effort, but it can be done. You could also catch up with a tv series you had been too busy to follow. Sure, coz as long as you can find it, there are only so many episodes you'll have to sit through before being up to speed with what your friends know - supposing you'd want to do that in the first place, of course.

But, though we always say it, can we catch up with sleep?

Once that night has passed us by, that windowfor your skin to rejuvenate itself, for your liver to regenerate its lost cells, are gone forever. Perhaps once in a while it's ok. But not for extended periods of time. There's a reason why they call it beauty sleep, after all. I guess you you conceiveably make up for it over time, but sometimes, when the damage is done, the damage is done.

What about catching up with friends? I think we've all been there before. After you've ceased to contact someone for a period of time, you similarly lose touch with what's going on in his/her life. Sure, that person could update you, but those tidbits are necessarily compressed to an extent that the details (which are really the most juicy and important bits) have been lost a great deal. Then you find that you really don't know what your friend is going through anymore, the life she/he is living as she/he lives though it. You feel less and less close to that person, and you wished you'd kept closer touch with him/her. I'm not saying, of course, that reparation to the damages cannot be made. With enough effort, it's possible.

So. Can you make up for lost time with someone?

Are relationships like modules you can cram?

Can spending all your time with someone for the next three months make up for the six you haven't been around?

Maybe you can, like with sleep. Or with some friendships, if you're lucky.

But maybe, like sleep, the damage would have already been done.