The Kiss

When I see this painting called “The Kiss”, I feel the passionate kiss between a man and a lady.  His kind and soft kiss seems to give her the warmth, safety, satisfy and confidence.  Kiss is actually a gentle form of interaction between two persons of active and passive.

Everybody will kiss or be kissed in his or her life more than once.  It might be when they were infants, when they became the parents, when they fell in love each other, when someone departed others and so on.  Nevertheless, kiss is a manner that everyone needs to be taught nor trained. 

Kiss is actually very positive body manner.  It is born from love, kindness, sympathy etc.  There is no kiss for negative emotion such as sadness, hate and anger.  Kiss is not only positive itself but also can give positive benefits to who kiss and is kissed.  The most significant thing is the warmness between both.  There are now scientific researches about the benefits of kiss.

For a child, a kiss from the elder persons can be the best prize for him or her.  For the parents, it means their loveliness (the Metta).  But, for the lovers, it will be a passionate one for them.  Sometimes, we even cannot distinguish our kiss is response or stimulus.  There will be a lot of sorts of kiss based on the emotions.

There is also a patriotic kiss that makes me wow.  I found it when I read about the establishing the State of Israel after World War II.  When the Jewish people all over the world came back their very new country, they were extremely excited and kissed respectfully their land as soon as their feet touched the ground.

Kiss is also different between different culture and tradition.  In eastern countries, kissing with a stranger is a shame.  But, in some countries, it is a polite culture.  In eastern countries, the passionate kisses of lovers are seldom seen in public.  However, in western countries, it is a part of their daily lives.

Although there are a lot of perspectives, kiss will be the best and the most perfect body language to express our emotional feelings; love, loveliness, passion, sympathy etc in our so-called polite world.