When you are in touch with what’s going on right now, you are feeling what’s happening in a way that can’t be expressed in words. For some people, being in touch is just the natural way that they live their lives. But for some other people, getting in touch and staying in touch are just two of life’s great challenges that they need to overcome for themselves. Where you rest on the spectrum of being in touch versus out of touch determines how much swagger you have, and how well you relate to the rest of the world. Different strokes for different folks, and all that.
For instance, some people think that just because they were in touch with the world back in the day, they are just as in touch now. In most cases, this could not be any further from the truth. A person’s level of being in touch comes out of how accepting they are of how the world around them is working, and it also comes out of how in touch you are with how you are personally feeling at the moment. How you feel in the here and now impacts how receptive you are to the feelings which are all around you. Like a Jedi using the Force, you have to be feeling the here and now.
There are some people who feel the here and now more powerfully than almost anybody else does. For instance, Marc Ecko is in touch with pretty much everything in today’s culture. His design aesthetic is all about being in the here and now, and being in touch with how you are in the culture as a whole. This goes beyond swagger. Your swagger is like the feathers of a duck. Being in touch is like being the duck in the water, instead of just floating on the surface.
