For decades humans fought for our freedom to finally end up in isolation? Personal protection – prevention. The safety we feel when isolating, living in the bubble we designed in our individual manner. Remaining in the core of our comfort zone. Minimal touch, minimal social interaction, minimal mouth movement. We shut us up, respectively unwittingly shutting us down. Various new circumstances allow us to do so, to live in our desired “freedom”. Digitization – Communication through tipping, problem solving through liking photos, expression through empty words. Is this the way we try to keep freedom and security by avoiding touch? When the only touch we feel and permit is the moment we touch our phone to type in a message. As by one touch, we break the rules, we attack ones world of isolation.

The fear of losing our own identity makes a louder noice in our head than the desire to receive the touch. We seek for the better for the perfect, still we stuck in the middle. We try to please others in order to feel better, to be satisfied or at least to be able to please another persons life, if it can’t be ours. You are afraid of the new and are scared of starting a new adventure. What if you fall and you will never get up again, you will lay on the ground and aren’t able to rise? Do you want to feel that unbearable pain again and suffer from the mistake you brought up upon yourself? In attempting to not hurt yourself, you are distorting other souls just for the sake of your own balance between body, mind and soul. Creating a fake identity to hide from our person and refuse to take off our face mask, concludes in a bubble based society in which we deny to reach the maximal capabilities of our own self.

“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.” – Aristotle –

There are various ways in receiving touch, though we commonly equate touch with physical intimacy. Society has broken down physicality to a no longer valuable humans pleasure. We see each other through a lens, where we solely recognize the absolute rare object of the human self. The meaning of that sort of touch is distorted and its appreciation faded. Whereas we can also regard the inner part of the ‘rare object’ which is touchable by sharing – exchanging – transferring each other’s minds, personal ideologies, ideas and desires. It is when we touch the soul of one another or further the individual’s heart – the core of human existence. Touching someone’s core can cause love, that could result in fear and anger. Though it depends on the way we touch and what part of the soul we (are) allow(ed) ourselves to touch. With every experience and different life journeys, we either get more sensitive or resistant. We do allow people to touch our hearts or we block because by allowing to touch, you may get hurt, you may be broken. As we block the person virtually, we send the signal to not allow someone to touch. We create the bubble – the bubble society – we no longer want anyone to get too close to be able to touch you and your inner self. You become that ‘rare object’. As by one touch we may allow damage, brought upon ourselves.