There are few things more powerful than human touch.

In the world we live in today, we are kind of desensitized to one another. Flesh is everywhere, and sex is everywhere, and mothers don't hold their children, and how many people really recognize what just a simple touch means? Or maybe they realize its power, but only in the wrong ways. Not wrong--maybe just different.

Honestly, though--that actual physical connection between one human and another (and maybe another and another) means so much. That feeling of being just close to someone, even if only for a second--maybe you walk past someone on the street and you bump shoulders, and in that moment there's a little spot of lightning. Or maybe it's someone you're close to for a long time--maybe you fall asleep with somebody's arms around you, and the whole time you can feel your skin prickling, like electricity. Imagine that--imagine if there really were sparks you could see from outer space, wherever there was that electric touch, and they'd be out there in the space shuttle and see the whole world lighting up all over.

It is rare to find something more comforting, more comfortable than human touch--finding some way where you and somebody else fit perfectly into one another, like you're pieces of a jigsaw puzzle: how your chin fits on someone's shoulder, how someone's arm fits around your waist. I wonder: if everybody could find the way their bones locked into somebody else's, and it would be like a (how many people did I say there were on earth? Six billion-ish?) six billion-ish piece jigsaw puzzle. I wonder what kind of mosaic that would look like--I wonder if we really all do snap together, so perfectly, so easily. I think we should try it sometime.