Touching = Existence?

Besides sight, one of the senses we most rely on is touching. Some people say that they need to see something to believe it, while some are fine with the rumors about it. The brain works in mysterious ways and we don't know what's going on beneath the layers of skin and muscle at the tips of our fingers. However, our most reliable sense is touching, because when you can feel something with your own fingers, you know it exists... Right? But what about music? And the dramatic arts? Sure, you can touch the cold, slippery and white surface of  the G # key of a piano, you can pluck the strings of a violin or guitar, but can you really "touch" music? And, if you can't, does it really mean that it doesn't exist?

This is were it falls apart, and this happens with all the senses. Sometimes you are so sure that you heard someone call your name, when they really didn't, that you cannot believe that it was just your imagination. So to generalize the senses, and to say that totally depending on one would be fine is not right.

Touching is probably the most limited of our senses. You need to reach, touch and feel, while with eyes, you just look and your brain does the work for you. However, it is certainly the most tempting one. Most of the children get in trouble for touching things that they are not supposed to touch, like the vase on the top shelf, or the very expensive miniature replica of the Titanic. I mean, which one of us didn't reach out to touch the sarcophagus in the Natural History Museum, standing so appealingly behind a red velvet rope that says clearly: "Do NOT Touch"?

Our fingers connect us to the world in a much different way compared to our other senses. They can feel the harsh texture of a tree bark, the smooth, runny water, the plastic keyboard... And we know that these things exist, because? Because we can touch them. But for the things we cannot touch, our other senses come to help us. We can't touch music, but our ears come to our rescue and thus allow us to experience one of the most beautiful things in the world. So not all things are solid, not all things have a texture. Some things, we just cannot touch. Even though touching something may mean it that it exists, not being able to touch something doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. This shows that one of our five senses, touching, can only do so much for us and is not completely reliable.