Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.
Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
We're living in miraculous times where connections are made at the blink of an eye, the tap of a thumb, and the click of a mouse. We can never replace human interaction, but these simple actions can be powerful and meaningful to those we connect with.
Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.
Before two human beings come in close physical contact, their auras have mingled; that is the reason why we 'feel the presence of another' at times before we become aware of him by means of our ordinary senses.
Our actions - and inaction - touch people we may never know and never meet across the globe.
It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
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