Kissing

I recently had a talk with someone I care about -- our topic: kissing. I told him that kissing between people can and should be about so many things. These things can get mixed together, or sometimes our kisses are focused on just one of them. Kissing is about: passion, loneliness, hope, lust, love, friendship, connection, vampiric soul-searching, envy, respect, relief. For me, it's always been interesting when both parties are in a kiss--it can be gentle or rough--and you just know, somehow, that you've both latched onto the same reason behind the kiss. This isn't to say that people come to kissing with the same intentions/wants all the time. It's just to say that sometimes there's an invisible cord connecting both people, and the knowledge passes from lips to lips that, yes, we are joined, one, and this is why. I find this to be wildly romantic, intimate, and innocent. Kisses and hugs are some of the best things in the universe, aren't they?