Free Hugs
America
What is needed to start the process...?
Simply a spark... A feeling or emotion that is derived from the heart of one human being and decidedly chosen to be carried and passed on to another...
That... is exactly what this is... A feeling that one human being had and chose to spread it to the world. This is a continuance of his story.... This is Free Hugs America....
Where in the name of man who started this should be known... (Juan Mann), his name isn't neccessarily important; it's more of the principle of how and why, that should be further looked into. The only slight difference is that we are telling this in our own words, and what impact it had on us. A gentleman no older then a quarter century had been investing his time in london when a tragedy hit him and he was forced to migrate back to his home in Sidney. With nothing in his possession but himself, and no family to return to he sat and watched over the other people getting off of different flights at an airport....
The heaviness of his heart longing for someone to embrace him as other people were to their loved ones drove him to pick up a piece of card board and simply write "free hugs"" on both sides of it... And after a short clip of time standing in one of the busiest intersections in his home town and holding his sign aloft, a stranger approached him and tapped him on the shoulder... After explaining to him that her dog had just passed that morning and that that very day was the one year anniversary of her only daughter dying in a car accident, he dropped down to one knee and they embraced... And she departed smiling...
He realized that everyone in the world has problems... and most more so then he, but to see another person that was once frowning to walk away smiling was worth the time and energy placed into it.... That was approximately two years ago, and to this day Juan's message has spread across the seas and to several major areas across the states.... We all have things that weigh us down in life... The mundane and mediocre facts of reality that sort of drag behind us as we waft through our days doing whatever it is that we chose... But the important thing to remember is that there is love in the world that truly does care for you, and what you go through... You just have to see it... And sure you can sit here and say, "what good will a hug do me?", but then again... why don't you just walk up to someone and find out... Because it may be just what you needed... to clear your head...
"We are all miserable inside us... As human beings it is in our natures... The enlightenment is that even should the world explode around us, with a smile on our faces and a soft hand.... No man would be the wiser...." -Buddhist Phrase