By Alicia Centelles
There is nothing comparable to looking into each other's eyes, feeling the heart speed up when we see the whole world approaching, or being able to express, face to face, our feelings and emotions.
Never change, my love, / for attending to a message /
Never change what I feel / for the cover of Facebook.
That is the beginning
of a Cuban popular melody performed by El Chacal, and I'm sure you've heard it
or even hummed it some time. But maybe you haven't stopped to think about the
reality reflected by the author in its lyrics.
In a world with so much
Facebook, Instagram, MySpace, Imo and many other technological ways of
communicating, who can deny the progress of being able to contact others with
just one click, no matter distance and just in seconds? And to the loved one,
that possibility becomes something not inconsiderable: how nice it is to know
that someone dedicates her/his thoughts to us!
But there is also no
one who can resist the incomparable feeling of feeling embraced, seeing the
expression of a face when its owner tells us words that take us to another
world, feel the rubbing of a hand, a caress, to provoke a smile ... Nothing
that a million emojis or a thousand abbreviations in text messages can match. (Don't send me little faces like you're
laughing/ I prefer you smile for real, El Chacal´s song says in another part).
Science also endorses
the importance of social exchange and personal contact in the life of human
beings, and this goes beyond loving relationships. Studies abound that show the
essential sense of touch to survive, especially at an early age, because
caresses and physical connection are as relevant and basic for the newborn as eating
and sleeping.
The recommendation made
to parents today about maintaining that kind of bond with their children as
they grow up is not only valid for that moment in life: adults also need this
practice.
Scientific research
devoted to love relationships also coincides in the significance of the melee
bond. Specialists from the University of North Carolina, USA, say hugging or
shaking hands for at least ten minutes can reduce the harmful physical effects
of stress. And colleagues at the Canadian University Wilfred Laurier found that
couples who say goodbye with a kiss in the mornings increase their life
expectancy by five years, are absent little from work and even have less risk
of work and traffic accidents.
Also about kiss, other
studies show that this gesture puts into operation 30 facial muscles and
stimulates the production of oxytocin, a hormone related to infatuation,
affection, tenderness, and the desire for physical contact.
But without detracting
from the importance and seriousness of all these criteria,
I am sure that no
one needs to be shown that there is nothing comparable to looking into each
other's eyes, feeling the heart speed up when we see the whole world
approaching, or being able to express, face to face, our feelings and emotions.
Poets and lovers have
corroborated that before and after the Internet.
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