Touch

A single touch can make you melt or it can make you cry.  It is the most intimate connection between two human beings, the contact of skin and skin.  Touch conveys any amount of emotion, intentionally or otherwise, that expresses your feelings toward someone and attitude as a whole.

The gentlest caresses convey care and tenderness.  They can establish not only physical but also emotional contact, a connection which is essential for humans.  This encourages communication, trust, and affection.  It brings people closer together and helps them cope with difficult times or turbulent emotions.  Such a touch can also be intrusive, when an individual wants a certain level of privacy.  Because such contact encourages openness and trust, you cringe away from it when you are tense or frustrated or simply want to be left alone.

A firm grasp conveys strength and support.  It furthers a sensation of trust and often represents the bond of friendship and established experience.  This touch finds itself involved in more formal affairs through handshakes, but also makes itself known during times of trouble or distress.  Firm hugs make you feel accepted and supported.  They give a certain confidence in the other person on which you can lean for support.


I'm sorry.  I can't write this right now.  It's written terribly so far anyhow and it's a topic I have much more eloquent things to say on.  So perhaps I will take this post up again at a later date.  Or perhaps it will be incorporated in more fitting bits and pieces into other posts.  Regardless, I am in the wrong state of mind do this at present.  My apologies.  I'm off to ramble in the back alleys of my private files.  Have a good evening.  Hope for a better post tomorrow.