I Am A Very Tactile Person
Touch Is So Important . . .... This thought just came back to me after chatting to an EP friend:
I am a very tactile person and I know I touch people without thinking much about it. I remember once being surprised by my great aunt, though, who made me realise the power for good I wield through touch without thinking about it. She had been a very active and loving person throughout her life and I had spent many happy school holidays with her as a child, but she was confined to bed for about a year before she died and found it very hard. I used to visit once a fortnight and just sit chatting for an hour or so, often just keeping up a monologue as she dozed. The week before she died we had a bit of a heart-to-heart and she told me that she especially looked forwards to my visits because I always held her hand while we talked and that had become the only affectionate touching she ever had. It was really quite humbling to realise that something I just do naturally meant so much to her.
I am a very tactile person and I know I touch people without thinking much about it. I remember once being surprised by my great aunt, though, who made me realise the power for good I wield through touch without thinking about it. She had been a very active and loving person throughout her life and I had spent many happy school holidays with her as a child, but she was confined to bed for about a year before she died and found it very hard. I used to visit once a fortnight and just sit chatting for an hour or so, often just keeping up a monologue as she dozed. The week before she died we had a bit of a heart-to-heart and she told me that she especially looked forwards to my visits because I always held her hand while we talked and that had become the only affectionate touching she ever had. It was really quite humbling to realise that something I just do naturally meant so much to her.
36-40, F
