The Magic of Giving Someone Your Total Attention

He said he had somehow gotten an invitation to a party in Beverly Hills.

The guest list would have left a VIP list for dead; every one a super star. The top of the top of the heap. He was the only one there you wouldn't recognize.

My friend was introduced to almost all the guests, but it was very apparent that most of them were too important to have any genuine interest in him - that is, until he was introduced to Phyllis.

He said it was incredible! She treated him like he was really somebody. Her interest in him was genuine and to her he was as important as anyone else there. She was really beautiful, more beautiful than anyone in the room.

Later, he went back to her and told her how he felt. She was just as gracious as ever and thanked him, saying that when she was with someone she tried to be totally theirs for that time.

It reminded me of Michael Smith in Robert Heinline's classic novel, "Stranger in a Strange Land." Jubal Harshaw, my favorite character, asked his secretary what was so special about the way the boy kissed.

"Mike gives a kiss his whole attention," she answered.

"Oh, rats! I do myself. Or I did," Jubal replied.

Anne shook her head. "No, I've been kissed by men who did a very good job. But they don't give kissing their whole attention. They can't. No matter how hard they try, parts of their minds are on something else -missing the last bus - or their chances of making the gal - or their own techniques in kissing - or maybe worry about jobs, or money, or will husband or papa or the neighbors catch on.

"Mike doesn't have technique. . . but when Mike kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe. . . and the moment is eternal because he doesn't have any plans and isn't going anywhere. Just kissing you." She shivered. "It's overwhelming."

That's true beauty, as far as I'm concerned. Add a beautiful body, you have utopia.

 
John Michael Rafanello
WonderTech's Chief Visioneer