Love-Time

Has it ever happened to you—meeting someone for the first time and feeling an immediate urge to embrace them? Or reading another person's body language and sensing they, too, are ready for an embrace?

Research from UC Berkeley reveals that most people believe they are warmer and more loving than others. In other words, nearly everyone thinks, "People want to love me more."

Here's where something fascinating occurs. If we don't suppress the urge to embrace but instead express it, the other person responds—because they too believe they're the more loving one. This way, an embrace becomes the key to mutual openness.

A simple truth: love and warmth wither when suppressed, but when expressed, they multiply and spread. Starting with one person, extending to family, friends, society—gradually this becomes natural.

Today we see that young people are far more "embrace-loving" than before. Perhaps the expression of love is slowly becoming a new culture.

So the essence is this—when you feel the pull toward an embrace, there's no need to hesitate. People are truly as loving as they believe themselves to be. Therefore, embraces, affection, and warmth—everyone can share in these. Love grows not through conservation, but through expression.