Based on your diet, the bacteria that makes up your gut microflora have been found to influence your appetite and food choices. Your thoughts and feelings. What’s especially phenomenal is the fact that there is more bacteria on your skin and in your body than you have your own cells. Begging the question, what are you composed of really? What is Self? 

Buddhist have a practice to still the mind. It begins by imagining a black circle in the mind’s eye. Focus on nothing but that black circle. After a few minutes, thoughts begin to flood in without any conscious input, and the black circle is expunged by an onslaught of information. Makes you wonder what/who is truly in control, doesn’t it? 

Finally, each of us has our own signature cloud of bacteria. Even simple interactions like a handshake has significant value, an exchange of two selves; a way between two bodies to communicate between one another in the simplest form- through touch. Id like to think when I kiss someone, I receive a bit of that person within myself. Like two couples that have been together for awhile share similar signature clouds, and tend to think and feel similarly. When I take in you, a bit of your thoughts, hopes, and desires are transferred over. Such an exchange should not be taken lightly because a transmutation of sorts occurs, and cannot be reversed. 

So, if we were to kiss, the big question is, would you like to be more like me because I’d like to be more like you.