Intimacy.

What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear this word?

Or rather...

What is the first kind of intimacy you jump to, when you hear this word?

Physical aspects of intimacy?

Let me guess, your answer is yes right?

Am I right or am I right?

As for me,

INTIMACY, the word tops in, my most misunderstood word list.

Why do we jump to a conclusion or rather a judgement that yes, they're talking about it from a physical aspect?

There can be so many different types of intimacies a person could rather be talking about!

There is obviously physical intimacy which again is always misunderstood as intimacy itself.

There could be emotional intimacy, where your raw emotions express the intimacy you share with someone.

There could be mental intimacy, where in you are intimate with the mental status.

Or spiritual intimacy, which could be explained in several manners depending on the person explaining it.

And then comes the intimacy you share with people in your life.

Intimacy with your partner, best friend, parents, siblings or who so ever you share it with.

It could be any of the above form of intimacies or even different than these.

There are no borders or confined boundaries to this word. Or rather emotion as I see it.

So then, why is it so misunderstood?

Because we have been taught so?

Or because the dictionary says so?

I still sometimes think that why is it so hard for all of us to get stuck to a single meaning of a word when there are n number of other possible meanings, emotions and expressions connected to a word.

So, what can we do about this?

What we can do is that next time when we hear a word that we are so ready to dig on and judge!

Let's take a while and think about it. Let's try to broaden our aspects on the word and its meaning.

And not just confide in the meaning we have been taught.

So next time when we hear something like this, let's try to be open and non-judgmental.

I for starters have recently stopped myself from thinking about everything from a single point of view.

Sometimes to understand what someone is trying to tell us; we need to think about it from all different angles. Such as this word intimacy.

We might fail at these miserably because we have been doing this throughout our entire life.

But then, there is always a starting point to something new.

There is always a first.

Also, no offence to anyone who has done this or maybe not done this. Also, I am not judging or saying that any of you might have done this. Its just a thought which I have been wanting to share since a long time.

If you have any different views than mine, do let me know.

I would be glad to hear your theories and views.

Do let me know your inputs on this.

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Much love your way.

Div.

Published on: 17-05-2020.
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