Healthy non-sexual physical touch has been banished from proper society. We are the only primates who live this frigidly.
Where did the innocence go?
Why do we automatically conflate feelings of appreciation, understanding and admiration with a desire to consume or own the person?What if we could love without seizing and grasping at the object of our affections? What if we learned to do that so well that we could give love and true encouragement to everyone we interacted with, while also being able to drink in the inspiration of a beautiful mind, to admire a capable body, to curiously study a vast and intricate soul? What if doing so expanded all of our hearts, emboldening us toward our own personal challenges in the process? Innocently, purely, seeing each other’s value?
https://www.roadlesstraveled.online/post/connection-consumption
