Why do we feel the need to submit ourselves to the judgment of a bored reader on the other side of the world, lying on their sofa, exhausted by a pointless search on Netflix for a film they haven’t seen, who—thanks to some diabolical algorithm—will find us and judge us with the same approximation with which they choose their next good intention that they will not keep.

So why do we write? Why do we play music? Why do we go to an art exhibition? Perhaps because we hope that among a multitude of bored, distracted people, too busy following the clichés that society imposes, at least one—and I mean just one—will stop to read one of our articles, listen to one of our songs, or feel the same emotion while looking at a painting. Perhaps because in a society that wants us increasingly alone, we want to connect—but with a connection that does not travel over digital fiber, but through personal emotions.

Emotions, explains Dr. Candace Pert, are not simple chemicals in the brain. They are electrochemical signals that carry emotional messages throughout the body. These signals, a mixture of peptides, have far-reaching effects.

“When our feelings change, this mixture of peptides travels throughout the body and the brain. They literally change the chemistry of every cell in your body—and transmit vibrations to other people.”

As Dr. Pert explained in her book, Molecules of Emotion, neurotransmitters called peptides carry emotional messages. “We are not just little pieces of meat. We are vibrating like a tuning fork: we send a vibration to other people. We transmit and receive. Thus emotions orchestrate the interactions among all our organs and systems in order to control them.”

On this subject we can find countless sources, both for and against, as with any scientific topic, but our question is: in your personal experience, how many times have you found yourself in immediate connection with a person? How many times have you perceived a negative sensation in a situation, calling it—not by chance—negative vibe? How many times have you seen children or pets be influenced by your mood, perhaps because they are more sensitive and sensory than we are, we who have lost the ability to listen to ourselves and to listen?

So why do we write? Because our bodies are instruments that, when they are close, produce wonderful melodies. We do not accept a world that wants us alone and silent. We do not accept a society that puts us to sleep with streaming and influences our vibrations with a digital world.

We write because we know that out there in the world there are people like us who want to play their bodies and dance their ideas with a multitude of living beings who vibrate in the same way, following a tribal rhythm.

By Iaia