touch and communion

Among the five senses at our command, touch is the first to be developed starting even at our mother’s bosom, and it forms the point of origin for all the others. It doesn’t have the richness of some of the other senses, like vision (with all the diversity of images that we can ponder) or hearing (encountering the variety of sounds, melodies). It is the most primordial but the most essential sense in life and in communication. And it possesses an advantage other senses don’t have: reciprocity. We can see without being seen, hear without being heard, but we can’t touch an object without being touched by it at the same time. The contact that comes with touching something is more intimate and immediate than that created by any other sense. It is par excellence, the sense of communion.