Grateful for soft skin

Like, how awesome is it that skin is so soft… and you can touch it!

You may wonder, “what a weird thing to be grateful for and write about, Jibran.”

Yeah, I guess? But as this is my publication, I get to write whatever I want!

So, I just want to share a bit about how I think skin’s softness is wonderful! (Skin is amazing in countless other ways as well, biologically and such, but that’s not for today.)

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Babies

For example, I hope you get to experience the feeling of giving a/your baby a bottle (or the tit if you’re their mom…) and the baby sleepily drinking while holding or clenching your finger/hand with their tiny soft baby-fat-finger paws. Your oxytocin levels will shoot through the roof! 

Maybe this’ll sound objectifying, but I mean this in an utterly loving: women are like divine factories that create more cuddly softness—i.e., love—in the world.

Lovers

Another example is, of course, enjoying the softness of skin in romantic love. Besides being a softness-making machine, my wife is also super soft herself! (Well, her personality can be a little less soft than mine sometimes, but don’t tell her I said that. 😘) How I love to <redacted> when she <redacted> and I just <redacted>…

Touch more

In our digital age, with many of the <30 y/o’s living alone and many of the elderly as well, I think we don’t touch each other enough. (And I’m not solely talking about romantic/sexual stuff.) As we close our eyes and imagine what different things feel like, we probably have a better idea of what our phones feel like than the hug of our family and best friends. As such, I think it’s a good idea to be more conscious of allowing ourselves to be touched and to touch others.

End note: one part of me says to add “disclaimer-like” sentences here like: “if appropriate,” “with consent,” “yadda yadda.”

I only feel the need for this caveating because I’m writing online. Since if you get away from the internet for a bit, you’ll see most people don’t need disclaimers like that cause we know perfectly well what fits and what doesn’t. I hope we can get a bit of this “common sense” back onto the web, actually, but that is a topic for another day.

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That’s it for today; go hug someone!

Hugs,

Jibran