Adieu to the Kiss

Take a look:

"H1N1 forces French to bid adieu to kiss"
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/13/france.kiss/index.html

I have to admit, I do like being informed about the global news on a daily basis. However, I often find myself tired of reading about global warming, the Middle East, and the economy. That's why I loved this little article I came across on Cnn.com. It discusses the H1N1 scare from an entirely new perspective, and though this particular effect H1N1 is having on the French culture does not quite equate in seriousness with the deaths the disease is causing, the article still makes an interesting point. It's an interesting dimension to H1N1 that most people probably haven't considered: not only how the disease is effecting everyone on a physical level, but how across the globe, it is effecting each culture in uniquely different and emotional ways. Just look at how the absence of this simple piece of daily life has caused such a deep disturbance in the eyes of the French people. Funny, how as humans, we can form the strongest of attachments to the simplest things in life.