Skin hunger, or tactile hunger, is a phenomenon of our era. According to experts, we feel touch deprived when the amount of touch we desire is more than the amount of touch we actually receive. It is very similar to the feeling of regular hunger.
Touch provides both safety and comfort, and now in the U.S. pets are being adopted from shelters more than ever. In that sense, even touching a dog, a cat or another animal will satisfy this hunger.
Obviously, when we cannot touch human beings in a human way, then at least we would do so with animals in an animal way. Sure, have a dog and play with it, but we are meant to actually experience something else.
This external touch, a tactile contact, does not replace the internal disposition and the contact of the hearts. When the hearts are in contact, then the distances are irrelevant because the body has no significance at all in this matter. Connection of the hearts is only possible between one person and another person, and it is neither physical nor tactile.
How do we connect with our hearts? In the yearning, when we feel that we yearn to connect with others and we also receive a response from them. We then feel that both hearts have been truly opened and a mutual space emerges between them. Love, understanding, and reciprocity are felt within this mutual space.
Naturally, everything comes from hunger. The kind of hunger that pulls one heart to another heart is not animalistic, but spiritual. It is expressed as a lack of life energy. We can feel such energy when we connect with others in such a way. Even though we have food and money, there is still a feeling of lacklusterness. This means that we look for another heart. We unconsciously feel that we have no one to live for.