All you need is love

I stumbled across this article today in the NY Times, and my reaction went something like this:

Silly---Newsworthy?---Awww---Social evolution?

And then I realized this article is really about love. Its about how "hugging" has become the social acceptable greeting amongst the younger generation in a way it was never before. Indeed, as I would agree with the noted professor in the article, that we as a society have changed in our ways of greetings. Things have become less formal as we adapt more and more various cultural aspects of contact in each subsequent generation. Maybe we have come to realize that despite the social awkwardness of "touching" people in public, a little respectable human contact does more for us than putting on a show of superiority over your fellow man/woman.

In my opinion, I feel it is that we have have let just a little more compassion into our hectic lives. Perhaps all we need is love indeed.