Visual Display of Affection

One thing that I have noticed about the human race in the twenty-first century is that we have shied away from displaying affection, we have been hiding behind our inhibitions too much lately, that we only watch them from afar, or from movies.

It upsets me so. We have the amazing ability to feel, to want, yet we use neither. We allow capitalism to hold us as its captives, we work from nine to five to earn enough money to spend on material objects, where we are meant to be striving for things money can never buy, like requited affection. Nothing feels better than to be emotionally understood, and to have affection stroking one's emotion. People are losing touch with their emotions and people are forgetting to feel.

One thing that liberates us from robots is our ability to feel. We have taken this ability for granted, and traded it in for money, for rushing aspects of life and forgetting to sit down for a couple of hours and enjoy the world as a blur with a pinky hue. Our lives are becoming too repetitive and predictable rather than spontaneous and atmospheric. We allow our fears to control us to an extent where our true selves are hidden deep within us, far from our surface and far from anyone's reach. 

Life is enjoyed with things capitalism has not created. Do not let those colourful bills control your thinking. There is much more to existing than purchasing things to regulate your economy. Cavemen survived without an economy, so we can too. Be loving cavewomen and cavemen. Love, and thus live. A life lived in pinky hue is bette than a life lived in a capitalist hue.

I want for just an hour to spend a conversation with someone who regulates their feelings, so that I may expose mine and share mine with that someone, so that our inhibitions can disperse and float away with old waves. The art of conversation is also dying away because of the lack of the pinky hue in life. In the loss of these two aspects, we lose our humanity, the one thing that, apart from intellectualism and common sense, allows us to be liberated from any other form of species. 

If we lose the things that we have been wired to have, then we lose our essence. To live a life without essence is to not live at all. People who 'live fast and die young' do exactly so. They harm themselves and utterly deplete the possibility of a rebuild, a repair, or a life. Imagine watching your favorite film on fast-forward - it would be too irritating to watch, it will soon become unappealing as you cannot stop to enjoy each scene as it unfolds. This is the same with your life. Do not live your life on fast-forward, nor on repeat. Keep it on play, at a steady pace, and move. The important thing is movement, for you can make a move and reveal your emotions.

If you want to live a humanly life, then exist as a human. Love. Feel. Do not be afraid. Fear is a time-waster.