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by thrownaway954 2215 days ago
this is true about anyone. given enough time and distance, your own mother will become "just another person you know". if you aren't physically interacting with people, you are soon forgotten.
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I used to believe in out of sight out of mind until I had my first break up.

Out of sight out of mind is a function that takes a parameter that is not a Boolean. If the person was important enough to you they won’t leave your mind easily.

If anything, the adage exposes the strength of your relationships. In the business case, it will expose the value of physical coordination vs virtual coordination. It’s not going to be clear cut.

But you are probably right in a business context, where the number that’s going to get passed into the out of sight out of mind function will definitely be low enough to return true for just about all of us.

It’s not exactly the world anyone wants to live in, but what are you gonna do.

which is why i said "given enough time and distance".
I live across the country from my dad and miss him quite a bit even though we havent seen each other in a long time. We chat weekly or so.