It feels, and I believe it should feel, as if there is a big hole right through the middle of you. Unfortunately, there is a tendency to fill this hole up, either with school or an activity, or just to pretend that it isn't there. In a word, no. Perhaps the first, and most important thing that comes with a long distance relationship is that hole. That hole is essential because it enables you to realize how much you miss the other person and allows you to pine after them.
Absence can make the heart grow fonder.
It is possible to live a normal life with the hole deep down inside, but one must remember that for the relationship to work, one must lead such a life so that the hole does not disappear. Once the hole is gone, there is no more reason to maintain the relationship. The reason that humans fall in love is that they find in another person something that they don't have deep inside themselves. The person that they love has some quality that completes the person in love. When the person who is loved disappears, the love doesn't disappear, but it becomes stretched.