Plan your after-birthday!
You're birthday-manic and without a big party it's just not the same? Then use your birthday to plan the perfect party! Preferably for a time when you'll be able to see your loved ones again finally!
Plus, you can get friends involved in the planning excitement over Zoom or WhatsApp. You raring to go yet? Good. Did you know they say that that anticipation is the best kind of happiness?
Learn something with friends from afar
Ever since lockdown – if not before – we've realized that video calls can be a tiiiiny bit draining. Especially if more than two people are taking part.
Well, how about inviting friends to an online workshop instead for a long distance birthday online? Moderated by a professional of course. You want to learn something after all!
Know a yoga teacher? Great! Ask him or her if they're up for offering a virtual group hour exclusively for you.
Send yourself a birthday card
Being wished the best is a part of a good birthday tradition. So turn it around and send yourself a birthday card from afar. Try creating an individualised birthday card with your own photos by app here. You can send them anywhere in the world with a click.
But what is the perfect long distance birthday greeting for myself? How about, “It's my birthday and I wanted to spend it with you. Let's just repeat this with friends another time. Drinks are on you!”
Okay …. but what do I get out of it? When you're choosing photos for your birthday card, you get to see all the great, funny and treasured moments and memories with your friends and family in your photo gallery, and you'll feel automatically loved. AND you get a memento to stick on the wall! Happy happy birthday, me!
Celebrate your birthday with … yourself!
You read that right: Celebrate your long distance birthday with … you! Sure that sounds a bit odd to start with, but it's actually a real mood booster! Spending time with yourself can be wonderful. And an extra – your sense of self worth will be improved at the same time too!
Get ready for your big ‘you' day! Prepare a Spotify playlist full of your favorite songs, discover a new favorite drink, bake or order yourself a birthday cake (and eat it by yourself for once)! Make it a beauty self-care day or play your favorite Play station game, whatever your guilty pleasure is. Really treat yourself.
To put it plainly: Take your time, treat yourself and have a great birthday!
Do something good on your birthday
So the party isn't happening this year? The video chat with friends in celebration of the occasion is still on though? You could use the money that your friends would normally have spent on your surprise party, gifts or drinks for a good cause. How about you use your long distance birthday video chat to do something good at the same time? Where the donation is the cost of entry..?
You can easily have friends transfer money over PayPal. As the birthday kid, you get to pick the charity out in advance and your friends donate before joining. At the end of the party you can let everyone know what the total donation is!
You can even go all the way and send thank you cards to your video chat donators / visitors, perhaps decorated with some funny screenshots from the chat itself…
Looking for ideas for your partner or best friend's long distance birthday?
What can you do for… your long-distance boyfriend's birthday? Or your far away best friend forever? Or a sibling who's feeling low during lockdown. Of course you can adapt the above ideas for them, but if they've got their own thing planned, you might want to surprise them in a different way.
So here's how to celebrate your best friend's or lover's birthday at a distance.
A balcony birthday serenade
Italy did it first and other countries followed suit. Throughout lockdown #1, songs have been belted out from balconies and communities have come together. So how about organizing a balcony concert yourself as a birthday surprise serenade to your best friend or loved one?
The work would lie in getting the neighbours involved more than anything else. But you can do that from afar! Most neighbourhoods are connected on platforms like Nextdoor. So you can ask for help there!
This idea demands some organizational talent and an engaged neighbourhood. But it'll definitely be a one of a kind long distance birthday greeting!
Birthday wishes as personal as your memories together
Are you currently hurting your head thinking of ways to celebrate your friend or family member's birthday from a distance? Here's a simple, but personal idea for you. You've probably lived through a lot together, right? Put those moments to paper and send it in the post.
Either as a letter reminiscing about your favorite moment together or as a story made of printed photos or postcards sent directly to their door. You don't even have to print the photos yourself – you can easily create the photos by app and have them delivered for you.
Let your friends and family know what you're doing and encourage them to do the same. That way they'll get a whole stack of birthday post, all full of great memories to make them feel loved from afar.
The classic for long distance birthdays
Nowadays there are so many ways to celebrate someone on their birthday that we sometimes forget the simple option. To pick up the telephone and have a personal chat. It sounds a bit old school, but just think about it. How did you feel after your last surprise telephone call with a loved one? Exactly!
Taking some time to pick up the phone and call the birthday boy or girl won't just make them happy. You're also on the call and you'll also feel connected.
If your connection is poor because of the distance, try sending voice messages instead. Hearing their voice just isn't enough? Then upgrade yourself to a video call – if the wifi plays along!
Organize a gift card Tombola
By presenting the gift card right, it'll look more personal and will show that you've put a lot of thought into your gift. For example, organize a gift card Tombola!
Find friends and family who'd like to take part in the birthday raffle and write their names on bits of paper. On the gift cards, write down activities that could be bought with them and that you know the birthday kid will like doing.
Once you're in a video conference with the whole group on his or her long distance birthday … let the raffle begin! Here's how it works: first you draw from the gift card stack, then from the notes with the names on them. That way, you get unlikely combos and everyone has fun!
We hope you liked our long distance birthday ideas!
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We all know how hard it is to be far away from the people we love. Not having your BFF by your side when you’re having a hard day is bound to make anyone feel sad.
There are some friendships that are powerful enough to last no matter the distance between you — those are the kinds of friends that you know you will have for life.
The next time you are feeling sad and wishing that you had your long-distance friend there with you, you can look at the following sayings as a reminder. A reminder that the people you love are never as far away as you might think.
You could even send one of the quotes to the special friend you’re thinking about to show them that you’re in it for the long run.
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If you’re here for the best of the best long-distance friendship quotes, then look no further. This
list of inspirational quotes is a great reminder of how lucky you are to have someone that you care about enough to miss. Read them to help pick you up on a lonely day, or bring your friends a little closer by sending them one of the following sayings.
1. "I wish that you were here, or I was there, or we were together anywhere." —Unknown
2. "True friends are never apart. Maybe in distance but never in heart." —Helen Keller
3. "You’re worth every mile between us." —Unknown
4. "Distance means nothing when someone means everything." —Unknown
5. "I may not be there with you, but I’m there for you." —Unknown
6. "No matter where you are, you will always be looking at the same moon as I am." —Unknown
7. "Distance is not for the fearful, it’s for the bold. It is for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. It is for those knowing a good thing when they see it, even if they don’t see it nearly enough." —Unknown
8. "Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go." —Lana Del Rey
9. "I miss you. A little too much, a little too often, and a little more every day." —Unknown
10. "Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there." —Unknown
11. "Wherever you are and whatever you are doing, stop and smile because I am thinking of you." —Unknown
12. "I love everything about you, except for the fact that you’re not with me." —Unknown
13. "The people who are meant to be in your life will always gravitate back towards you, no matter how far they wander." —Unknown
14. "Distance is just a test of how far friendship can travel." —Munia Khan
Do you sometimes go too long without seeing your best friend? Whether it’s because they’re far away or life gets busy, there are always friends that you don’t see often, but when you do it’s as if you were never apart. These are the perfect best friend quotes to send to your BFF to let them know they’re still your number one.
1. "Dear long distance bestie, sorry that I don’t call you daily, but I just want to tell you one thing. I miss you." —Unknown
2. "Girls can survive without a boyfriend, but they can’t without a best friend." —Unknown
3. "A best friend may not talk to you every day. She might live in another city, or even a different time zone, but she’s the first one you call when something happens that’s really great or really hard." —Unknown
4. "But your best friend is still your best friend. Even from a world away. Distance can’t sever that connection. Best friends are the kinds of people who can survive anything. And when best friends see each other again, after being separated by half a world and more miles than you think you can bear, you pick up right where you left off. After all, that’s what best friends do." —Unknown
5. "Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?" —Richard Bach
6. "Sadness is when everything you do reminds you of your best friend but she’s far away." —Unknown
7. "A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation, doesn’t always need togetherness, as long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never be apart." —Peter Cole
8. "Here is my favorite thing about long-distance besties; it can be years since you have seen each other and, the minute you start talking, it is like you were never apart." —Becca Anderson
9. "True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side." —Unknown
10. "Long distance friendship is as hard and as beautiful as a long distance relationship. To have a friend miles away, smiling in your joy and crying in your pain is the biggest blessing." —Niroop Komuravelli
11. "We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep." —William James
12. "There’s no distance that can make me forget you." —Unknown
13. "True friends stay with you, no matter the distance or time that separates you from them." —Lance Reynald
14. "True friendship resists time, distance, and silence." —Isabel Allende
15. "The most beautiful discovery that true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart." —Elisabeth Foley
16. "True friendship isn’t about being inseparable. It’s about being separated and nothing changes." —Unknown
17. "I’ve learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance." —Unknown
18. "Though we drifted apart in distance I still think of you as being right here. And although we have many new friends, it is our friendship that means the most to me." —Unknown
19. "No matter how far you manage to go, distance will never be able to erase those beautiful memories. There is so much goodness that we shared together." —Lucy Aims
20. "You are my best friend, the one I spent so many hours with, the one I will always miss." —Unknown
21. "No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth." —Robert Southey
22. "Best friends are people you don’t need to talk to every single day. You don’t need to talk to each other for weeks, but when you do, it’s as if you’d never stopped talking." —Unknown
23. "True friends stay with you no matter the distance or time that separates you from them." —Lance Reynold
24. "Time and distance are important between friends. When a friend is in your heart they remain there forever. I may be busy, but I assure you, you are always in my heart!" —Unknown
25. "There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound." —Diana Cortes
26. "If I could write a book right now it would be titled 1000 ways to miss your BFF. I miss you." —Unknown
27. "There is nothing long-distance about friendship, it always finds a way to bring hearts together no matter how many miles there are between them." —Unknown
28. "Long distance relationships are like wind to a fire: it puts out the small ones, but inflames the big ones." —Unknown
Just because you miss someone doesn’t mean that you can’t still have fun with them. Deep and emotional connections with the people we miss are great, but sometimes laughter can be the best medicine and the thing that makes the distance between you feel a little shorter. Send a laugh to someone you care about with the following funny long-distance friendship quotes.
1. "How we keep on being friends despite our differences and distances is amazing to me." —Unknown
2. "You make me smile despite the miles." —Unknown
3. "I miss you like an idiot misses the point." —Unknown
4. "Want to learn how someone really handles frustration? Put them in a long-distance relationship and give them a slow internet connection." —Lisa Mckay
5. "We’ll always be friends because you match my level of crazy." —Unknown
6. "I’m jealous of people who get to see you every day." —Unknown
7. "I hope we’re friends until we die, then I hope we stay ghost friends and walk through walls and scare the crap out of people." —Unknown
8. "My memory loves you; it asks about you all the time." —Unknown
9. "Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely." —Unknown
10. "Friends come and go, like waves of the ocean, but good ones stay, like an octopus on your face." —Unknown
11. "Definition of a long-distance relationship: Inconveniently the most effective way to find out if you really love each other." —Unknown
12. "If you think missing me is hard, you should try missing you." —Unknown
13. "Whenever I’m sad, you’re there. Whenever I’m having problems you are always there. Whenever my life seems out of control, you are always there. Let’s face it. You are bad luck." —Unknown
14. "Dear best friend if you are busy and not talking to me then I have all the rights to kill you" —Unknown
15. "We are best friends, remember that I will always pick you up after you fall. After I finish laughing" —Unknown
16. "We will be best friends forever, because you already know too much." —Unknown
17. "Never let your friends feel lonely. Disturb them at all times." —Unknown
Sometimes the miles between you and your friends feel longer than normal. You can’t help but feel the distance between you and that special someone you miss and feel sad that they’re not there with you. At these times it’s important to realize that no matter how far apart you may be they are always close to you in spirit.
1. "It hurts not having you close, but it would hurt even more not having you at all." —Unknown
2. "I miss you. A little too much, a little too often, and a little more every day." —Unknown
3. "Whenever I start feeling sad, because I miss you, I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss." —Unknown
4. "Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated." —Alphonse De Lamartine
5. "I wish you were here to tell me that everything is gonna be okay." —Unknown
6. "I miss you. Not in some cheesy "Let’s hold hands and be together forever kind of way". I just miss you, plain and simple. I miss your presence in my life. I miss you always being there for me. I miss you, best friend." —Unknown
7. "The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again." —Charles Dickens
8. "Sometimes the people who are thousands of miles away from you can make you feel better than the people who are right beside you." —Unknown
9. "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." —Winnie the Pooh
10. "I miss you. Not the "I haven’t seen you in a while" kind of miss you, but the "I wish you were here at this very moment" kind of miss you." —Unknown
11. "Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart." —Washington Irving
12. "I started missing you as soon as we said goodbye." —Unknown
13. "I miss you. I might not always show it, might not always tell people, but on the inside I miss you like crazy." —Unknown
14. "It’s difficult because I am over here, and you are over there. And when I’m with you hours feel like seconds, and when I’m without you days feel like years." —LM
15. "There’s no distance that can make me forget you." —Unknown
16. "The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you." —Unknown
17. "It’s hard when you miss people. But you know, if you miss them it means you were lucky. It means you had someone special in your life, someone worth missing." —Nathan Scott
18. "Missing you is the hardest thing I’ve got to deal with every day." —Unknown
19. "Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated." —Alphonse De Lamartine
20. "They say that time heals all wounds but all it’s done so far is give me more time to think about how much I miss you." —Unknown
21. "You’re my closest friend and you’re thousands of miles away." —Anthony Horowitz
22. "You will never be completely at home again because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place." —Unknown
Cute long-distance friendship quotes
Simple and cute is sometimes all you need. The following quotes aren’t overly deep and they definitely won’t make you sad. They are the perfect quotes to send to your friends to brighten their day, or maybe make a birthday wish feel a little more special. Remember, you can always put a smile on your friend’s face regardless of the distance between you.
1. "If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together, there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart, I’ll always be with you." -Carter Crocker
2. "Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." —Oliver Wendell Holmes
3. "Consider this a long-distance hug from me to you." —Unknown
4. "I wish you could see the stupid smiles I get when we’re texting." —Unknown
5. "Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart." —Eleanor Roosevelt
6. "If one day you feel like crying, call me. I can’t promise to make you laugh, but I’m willing to cry with you." —Unknown
7. "There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance." —Dodinsky
8. "We’re not too close in distance. we’re not too near in miles. But text can still touch our hearts and thoughts can bring us smiles." —Unknown
9. "A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand." —Les Brown
10. "Another day that passes is another day closer to seeing you again." —Unknown
11. "There is no distance too far between friends, for friendship gives wings to the heart." —Unknown
12. "Always remember, we are under the same sky looking at the same moon." —Unknown
13. "If there is one thing you never need to doubt, it is our friendship. I am always just a phone call away." —Unknown
14. "Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time, we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that." —Ally Condie
15. "A single rose can be my garden, a single friend, my world." —Leo Buscaglia
16. "You’re worth every mile between us." —Unknown
17. "There’s no distance that can make me forget you." —Unknown
18. "Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world." —John Evelyn
19. "If distance were measured in terms of the heart we’d never be more than a minute apart." —Unknown
20. "We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere." —Unknown
21. "I’ve learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance." —Unknown
22. "Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes." —Henry David Thoreau
23. "Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart." —Kay Knudsen
24. "I wonder if we ever think about each other at the same time." —Unknown
25. "I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you." —Jonathan Safran Foe
26. "There is no distance too far between friends, for friendship gives wings to the heart." —Unknown
27. "Time is the longest distance between two places." —Unknown