>>>> Or maybe you're just lacking in wisdom! (Ouch!)

ROFL! No, that's definitely not it ... <<<

I hadn't expected that would be the case with you. As for kisses, I've had some and desire more but they are fleeting pleasures and not so fully galvanizing as writing or reading a great book. (When I say galvanizing I'm thinking of "clicking on all cylinders"--emotional, intellectual, physical--whereas with kissing, it's more a matter of hitting so hard on one cylinder--that's rather crude, I know!--that others are forgotten. In a way it's like drunkeness---you're not really funny or witty or sexy, but you sure do feel that way!

I incline toward the 'contemplation is the mountaintop' view, though I'm most likely to experience 'flow' while reading and writing, or playing or listening to music.