Connections

How is it that energy and life are transmitted between people in love? What forces are in play when two people embrace? There is nothing in the world more comforting than a sincere hug from someone that loves you. The connections we make with each other seem so powerful – and yet in some circumstances we find it easy to dispose of each other almost as out of a desire for convenience. Knowing this and the pain it brings we still play the strings of each other’s emotions. So the symphony of love has many movements, some to stir us, some to scare us, some to assuage our fears, some to simply confirm that we are still alive. But mostly I think love gives us something beyond ourselves to live for. That connection to each other is the essence of human existence, without that connection we would simply be animate creatures in an inanimate world.