The Human Shop

There are many friends in the life.
Some are very dear friends.
Some are long time friends.
Some are special friends.
And one is a lovely friend: last night was dinner with him in a nice restaurant.

As so often the subject of conversation was how high the level of humanity is in situations of work.
If there is still enough empathy and concern for others or that it is mostly these days about one thing only: how to make money out of the other.

The fantasy was to open a shop where selling products was not the primary purpose.
But to allow people to come in for conversation and sharing to begin with.
And that after the socializing possibly purchasing a product from the shop becomes the interaction.

This is nothing new as a sales strategy.
In many countries in the developing world selling and buying is a social activity.
An excuse to meet and to socialize.
To chat about each other’s families.

Of course in those societies with humane market activities time is accepted in life in a different way.
Priority is given to ways of living that are in the developed world rejected.

But would people in the developed world be prepared to pay a little extra if in a shop they were pampered personally?
If genuine interest in their lives was demonstrated?

A shop for humans?
The Human Shop.

One this becomes successful, the next step will be to start an airline where the passengers are not treated like cattle.
Air Human.




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Human warmth

What I need, the Queen of Dreams said this morning, is human warmth.
And she moved herself against the other body and in a most close embrace enjoyed all the warmth she longed for.

Human warmth?
Yes, the one that is different from the warmth one can feel when taking a sunbath.
Which is also an exquisite sensation: to feel the sun warming the naked skin.
There are people who spend hours laying in the sun to feel this warmth.
Enjoying how the body absorbs it to make the muscles and the bones feel young again.
Flexible and painless.

Human warmth?
The one that is different from the warmth of a heater.
From an electric heater or a gas heater.
Or from a wood stove or the radiator of a central heating system.
To put the body close to it and feel the warmth radiating while outside it is snowing and the wind blows the animals into their hideouts.
To feel the warmth on one side of the body and the cold on the other side.
To put the hands to the fire and feel the energy from wood logs that have been growing for years donating now the warmth one craves for.

Human warmth?
The one that is different from the warmth that feels when one takes a bath.
In a bathtub or in the warm sea.
When the water is maybe 25º C (77º F).
To enter the bathtub and immediately feel this ultimate comfort of the perfect harmony between the temperature of the body and the one of the water.
Or to dive into the warm sea and immediately feel a unification with the water because of its wonderful temperature.
In the steaming bathtub or the tropical sea, one can feel like being surrounded by warmth as during the time when a child in the womb of the mother.

But all these situations with warmth, in the sun, near the fire and in the sea, do not compare to the warmth the Queen of Dreams found this morning.
Because human warmth is more than just temperature.
It comes with love.



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