How long does a hug last? Maybe just a moment, maybe a few seconds, or maybe a few minutes, an hour, a whole day? Or maybe a hug lasts forever?
It may seem an exaggeration but when you experience certain hugs you realize that the duration of that contact lasts much longer than the few moments when the arms cross, the bodies touch and the faces touch. Some hugs it is as if they imprinted a lasting tattoo on the skin, which remains and remains for a long time, perhaps hours, days and months.
Of certain hugs you remember for a long time; of certain hugs you smell the scent for days and days, as if that closeness had left a balsamic fluid on your body that continues to spread its aromas.
The skin has this unique ability to “remember” the things it came into contact with, such as anamnestic traces that mark the epidermis and remain present in the heart and mind.
This is what happens to the hugs: those skins that are touched give the sensitive memory a memory that remains and remains vivid and understood for a long time. When, after a little or a long time, you think back to certain hugs and make them present to the mind and heart, it is as if the skin found a way to revive that emotion, like ancestral reminiscences that emerge after being buried. And so the strength of those arms that have held you, the brilliance of the two eyes you met and the warmth of the skin you touched reappear.
It doesn’t happen often but you immediately recognize when an embrace has such intensity and will leave this imprint on your skin. You immediately feel that that touch will remain imprinted on your body for a long time and that you will have recourse to him every time a sadness, a pain or an unhappiness will threaten your joy.
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