The Yearning
If you are as normal, as healthy and well-adjusted as I fear you may be, Dear Reader, the idea of infecting someone will naturally never have occurred to you. How about if I said "influencing people"? You know, the Dale Carnegie thing? Ever wanted to do that? (It's not exactly the same thing, but it's close.) No, of course you never "wanted to" influence anyone. You do it all the time, regardless. You communicate with others, and in your imagination at least, you commune . You share stuff. Perhaps there is a Special Person you commune with, y'know, specially. Assuming you live in the First World, that is (it may surprise you to learn that here in the Third World, the romantic concept of the Special Person never really caught on. Romance needs Hollywood to keep it alive, and Hollywood is almost off the dial in some places). If this is you, then the idea that someone may have gone through their entire life, all fifty-five years of it, without commun...