Body Contact
By JIRARA
© JIRARA, September 2020
Published by JIRARA on matrubharti.com
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Preamble: This story expresses my own opinions, and the readers should read the story with their discrete minds and own choice.
We talked about BMI in the previous story-book by JIRARA in MB. We expand our discussion on each of the constituents of the BMI: Body-Mind-intellect, in this and next few stories. The idea is to take a direct and a frank view point, rather than making much fuss about the ‘lowly-ness’: a) of touching the body, b) pampering it too much, and/or c) about our sexual aspects. The facts of the body contact are just real facts, which some people do not like to talk.
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Body Contact
We the humans have mortal bodies. These finite and prone-to-decay bodies eventually get worn out, and when we die our body is either cremated, buried or thrown to birds; depending on the path of the religion the dead person might have followed when he was alive, and active. Without the body and especially real good and clean body, our minds and intellect would not function properly.
It is very evident from our daily behaviour/s that our mortal body seeks always body contacts: we like to chew things, break things (virtually damaging the things and objects), eat food-things, press things, touch them and even crush something or other; many of these things we do involuntarily, and many intentionally, like eating banana. We keep touching some of our own body parts several times a day, sometimes it becomes a bad habit, and even a nuisance to a few; people often keep nail-biting persistently, cleaning their ears with their fingers, and so on…!
It is fascinating aspect of our daily living that without body contact/s with the objects, people and places (like landscapes, statues, monuments, structures, etc.) we feel utterly left out, alien, ignored and isolated.
In our daily dealings with objects and people, we accept inputs from our sense-organs and senses: touch, smell, taste, hearing, visual (and even the sixth sense as mystics tell us) all in different physical formats. This is the most fundamental aspect of our living life, even more fundamental being the extraction of the oxygen by our lungs.
Interestingly, by some incredible process, in these organs and mainly in the brains (that is not yet fully understood by us) we transform these received inputs into the sensation of being in some ‘reality’. We need to feel or be assured that we are somewhere, in some coordinates, in some place, at some time to obtain a more complete picture of the observed world; we want that we are somehow and in some way fixed somewhere, otherwise we are baffled; we want to be physically on some ground!
So, in all probability our life depends on ‘body’ contacts good or bad, we need to touch and smell to see if something exists or not; children need hugs and kisses from parents and relatives for reassuring that they are attended to or cared for and for a sure sense of security. Shaking of hands is one such sure way of acceptance, and continual friendship.
Perhaps, the most advanced/sophisticated (permitted by the evolutionary nature) body contact is through sex: by doing an intercourse with a legal/logical partner of the same gender (now a day people get into entanglement with the persons of the same gender; still I have not generated a good view and opinion on this topic). This requirement of sex is a biological urge in humans, so is for many biological species. The latter do not know it as an urge; either uni-or-bisexual, whatever it is: i) it is a tremendously powerful physiological force!, and ii) it is much more powerful than the force of gravitation, the nuclear forces in the matter, and electro-magnetic forces (my musings); and iii) it is un-measurable as it is!!!
It is a force of not only the physical magnitude (in the sense of its power, prowess, insistence), and vigour, is also a force of the great emotional intensity and magnitude, a physiological process permanently present but working on and off, based on the needs and at times not on any needs!
Mainly this force is realized, and practiced only at the level of ‘body’ contacts, and the multitude of components, of different sizes and shapes, hard and soft, muscular or not, work for its ultimate fulfilment; on and off, contracting and expanding and yet always wanting to work as if propelled by the ‘selfish’ genes; and in the final analysis to propagate the genes forever and ever. This is an enigmatic ‘game’ of the evolutionary nature.
In fact, the sex is a misfiring (for humans) of the evolution, since the animals do/perform it only when really needed for procreation; then here, it is called mating for getting off-springs: the humans do for this reasons, and even otherwise when not needed!
The humans do it for varieties of additional reasons: a) for showing off their power, b) for self-gratification, c) building new relationships, d) for bonding ties, e) for showing-off masculinity, f) for culmination of showing affection, and expression of the love, and g) even to express anger.
There is also a bad sex bringing agony, sadness, often leading to unfortunate rapes, and varied criminality, abhorred by the descent society and people at large-that is the sex misused, misunderstood, mis-sold, and mis-judged. And there is a good sex, bringing happiness, relaxation and calmness, coolness and temporary peace, yielding a feeling of some fulfilment.
The grip of this tyrant force is such that due to its after effects, the world had/has been propagating for millions and millions of years with new born and more and more new borns! This force is most difficult to tame it, calling for often heroic efforts to regulate it, even at a small scale. The entire world seems to be caught in its spasm and spell with its varied colours, meanings and implications; and it is desired by one and many and is considered as a gift from the ‘God’ by some.
We should utilize the body contacts with people and places, very judicioussly, so that their after effects are logical, and not unpleasnt.
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