Five senses! Indeed most of us are so blessed to have the five senses. We can see, we can hear, we can smell, we can taste and we can touch (and feel). Sadly, there are people who cannot see, there are people who cannot hear, there are people who cannot smell and there are people who cannot taste. Yet touch is the one sense that can be compromised but not be absent altogether.
You touch everything. When you are sitting, you can feel your buttocks on the seat. When you pick up a pen, you can feel the pen in your hand. It is through touch that we transmit love by hugging and kissing. This love is relayed to the heart and your heart is touched. Close relationships thrive on the physical touch and bonds are strengthened because of touch. You may want to observe this in your own life as touch is a normal human action and sense. The importance of touching your dear ones builds the bond and when that touch is no longer there, you miss it, you long for it. You seek ways to remedy that emptiness which you are now experiencing. We were not created as virtual people but real people with five senses and a sixth sense for the more aware. The sense of touch is the most important sense. Relationships suffer when this sense is not present. A blind person can touch and feel and Braille is important for that person. But for everyone, closeness is an essential. Close enough to touch and to feel that love. (a side note: also a sense to discover when all is not well in a relationship – so keeping on being close with hugs and kisses so that the gauge is in place)
People who lose the four other senses manage to live reasonably comfortably. Were you to totally lose all sense of touch, then you will be worse than a paralysed person. Thus, never take the sense of touch lightly and use it to its fullest extent by being close with your loved ones. The touch of a hand goes a long way even to a stranger for a bond is created albeit temporarily. There can be no distance when you truly want to experience the sense of touch. Touching the hand can be so meaningful that it can touch the heart.
Don’t be a stranger. Make your presence felt, make it touching.
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