Lay Witness to the Kiss-less

By: Gabriela Ardila 10ºB

When a kind of wind starts rising inside our hearts, and we feel capable of doing every thought that is in the deep of our minds, we know we are in love. When we enjoy the sun touching our skin more than yesterday, and life seems immensely jovial. We know we are in love. Feelings, actions, and situations are lived more brightly when we feel different about somebody. And although every one of us has felt a soul of love in a million different ways, because no human feels it in the same way, why all it takes to confirm a relationship is a kiss?
A non-kissing relationship in movies, series, and even in real life, seems boring for viewers. Kissing has become such a popular thing that the world has created a specific day to commemorate it. Knowing the 13th of April was classified as “The International Kiss Day” made my mind explode with questions towards humanity. I am not here to criticize how kissing takes over the most virtuous side of our hearts, but why, with the overcoming of generations, people have lost the pureness of when bodies are that close, with arms embracing their partner, and hearts nearly touching each other? Or why does feeling the warmth of a smooth touch within two different hands not ruffle our aura? The affection that other parts of our bodies can give, has been put away since hugging and holding hands has not a luxurious thing or feeling in it.
Humanity has established some levels of affection to make officials a stable relationship. It is said that those couples who have never kissed, are only two friends that are quite scared to make the first move. It is true that this day's generation suppresses love, but not totally as some people exaggerate. From what I believe to see, no matter how hard-hearted and carefree a person may be, we all try to romanticize love more these days. We do not love a person, or we do not seek their affection not because we are "afraid of being hurt", but because we want to feel it as uniquely as possible. We want to live every touch, every word, and every moment as effusively as possible. We want to feel the details as an overwhelming explosion that burns all the awful inside us and gives us space to plant the garden of flowers we need.
We are a generation of lay witness to the kiss-less. We do not need to experience it, commemorate it, or leave it, to know that the expectation of the real one will fill our souls. We are not cold, but we do not know how to love because we do not cast around to kiss suddenly. We are witnesses of living faithfully, that being with someone is canon, all done without a single kiss, which is rather amazing.