I have to write an essay for one of the common app prompts. The essay I wanted t

I have to write an essay for one of the common app prompts. The essay I wanted to write is about distance. These are my ideas and I want to write my essay based on what I wrote here but more complex. More specifcally how distance affected my family and I. My mom and I were apart from my dad from when I was born to three years after. I remember only being to see my dad through a screen when he was thousands of miles away from home because of his job. When I finally saw him, I was extremely grateful that we no longer had screen in front of us and we were finally able to see eachother face to face. From then on I dreaded having any sort of distance between my loved ones and I. For this reason I always had sleepovers at my house and never at one of the houses of my friends’. The first time I had a significant amount of distance between my parents and I was when I had a competition in a city two states away from my city. I was nervous and didn’t know how to cope with the way I felt without my parents being there with me. But through this experience I had learned that it was inevitable that one day I would have to move away from my physical home as well as the people I called home. When I was at that age I never expected to move far away from home, especially from college. I thought that moving would cause me to relapse and cause me to panic as I did those couple of years ago. Soon after that competition I had realized that growing up and becoming more independent should not be something I dread. It should be something I embrace and heal from the pain of my past. Because I learned that distance may seperate you from the people you love, but through that time that you are apart it makes the time that you spend together much more valuable. A lot of kids my age are like me, they too take lots of things for granted until they no longer have it. Distance should not only be seen as something that breaks bonds, but also gives you time to heal on your own and make you a better person. Relationships are a perfect example because sometimes people need to spend some time apart and have distance between them in order to help better each other. I believe that time is not the only factor that heals, distance also heals.