“You have to handle that person with kid gloves.”  Have you ever heard that statement?  It suggests that a person is hypersensitive -- easily hurt.  We all know people like that, and we have to learn how to relate to them.  But I’m concerned about another issue.  My perception is that a lot of people handle all of life with gloves -- afraid of the real touch.  Francis Cornferd wrote a poem about it:

Oh, why do you walk through the fields in gloves
Missing so much and so much?
Oh fat white lady whom nobody loves,
Why do you walk through the fields in gloves
When the grass is soft as the breast of doves?
Oh why do you walk through the fields in gloves
Missing so much and so much?

Now the poet may have been unfair to the lady, but the point is clear.  Going through life with gloves, we miss so much.  In fact, we miss everything.  Life is to be lived not with gloves on, but with bare hands.