Who's afraid of the flying kiss?

Like the UFO, the UFK can totally flummox some people. But what about the IFK? The Unidentified Flying Object and the Unidentified Flying Kiss can, indeed, be nervous-making. After all, what is the intention of the possible alien and/or possible rake? Planetary and erotic takeover, respectively? But if identifiable, both flying object and kiss should be peaceful, coming from the right kind of known person.

But let us deconstruct the ‘blown kiss’, that unique gesture of playful fondness that has a symbolic kiss resting on one’s fingertips that is then ‘blown’ by (bated or unbated) breath to another by the very act of being directed towards that person(s). It is an intimate act that is made extremely publicly – thereby revealing the levity of its symbolic creation. A real lover will not send out a ‘flying kiss’, for the FK is all about having a gallery, while a non-aerial K, not necessarily so. The flying kiss is also the closest humans – especially of the adult variety – can get to being childlike, even cartoonish. One almost expects to see some specks of pixie dust fly from the flying kisser’s hand. So, for people to mind, or even take offence to flying kisses, means an inability to take life – and everything that comes flying to you – lightly. The right response to a flying kiss coming your way would be to catch it, and then to set it free.