Transmitting Love

I am fully aware that love is traditionally given and received through touch. We hug and kiss, caress, and hold hands.  This love, although romantic and exciting, is also physical.  However, I find that more genuine and platonic love is often shown without physicality.  I often feel this sort of love more intensely, and it makes me happier.  I suppose you could call it charity.

I’m not sure what to call it, but I know that every so often I will feel this love transmitted from another person and it just makes me relaxed, calm, happy, and content.  Do you know that feeling?

I first remember feeling it in the presence of an elementary school friend.  I was probably in first or second grade, and I don’t remember anything about this friend other than the fact that she spoke so quietly and sweetly that I felt calm in her presence.  My shoulders would relax, my happiness would increase, and an overall feeling of well being permeated my soul.  I loved her soft voice, and I wished to speak as kindly as she did.  I loved the way I felt when she spoke to me, with such care.

Over the years, this is the most frequent way that I would feel this friendly love, this sense of calm.  I always marveled at the people I would meet that could cause me to feel this way.  I would try for days after being in their presence to be like them, to speak with such calmness.  I wanted to hold onto that feeling forever and to continue spreading that feeling of love to the world.

However, recently I felt that same love without even speaking to the person.  I received it through the mail in a package.  The package was wrapped with such flair and care that I could not help but feel special.  A beautiful smell emanated from the package, and everything in it coordinated and screamed “I cared when I sent this to you.” I felt special upon receiving this package and that same sense of calm and peace just from knowing that I had been the recipient of love.

I what ways do you feel and/or transmit love without touch?  Do you know that feeling I have described?

And how can we better show this love toward others?  The new year is a time of resolutions and change, but I hardly ever make resolutions.  I find that I’m a driven person with goals and aspirations.  I don’t need a holiday or a special time of year to motivate me to change or to work harder at something.  However, each year I want to be better at being more loving.  I want to feel charity more often and toward everyone, not just my friends or those who are kind to me.  I want to be somebody who is loving and kind.  I’m definitely a work in progress.

Happy Valentine’s Day!