OK\u00a0so\u00a0if you have been reading my blog for any length of\u00a0time, I\u00a0have probably already thoroughly established that for a big tough dominant chick, I have a decidedly mushy “woo woo” side to me.\u00a0I mean it is not all cruel <but fun> sadistic whips, chains and\u00a0humiliation all the time with me.\u00a0 The fact is, my heart is very easily touched\u00a0by the human side of humanity.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I have shared this, Free Hugs<\/a>, for a long time on my My Space<\/a> page. In fact it is the ONLY video that I have ever bothered to post there and it is the first one that I feel strongly enough to post here.\u00a0\u00a0I can honestly say that it\u00a0is absolutely my favorite video I have ever seen on the web, and I guess a few other folks liked it too because\u00a0it won video of the year on You Tube last year.\u00a0 And yes it can still choke me up and make me cry almost every time I see it. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/p>\n The Free Hugs Campaign\u00a0 seems to have completely lost it’s steam\u00a0 (last time I checked their website was dead) but if you poke around a bit you will see that the movement had spread to quite a few other countries as people took to the streets “holding their cards out in hand”.\u00a0<\/p>\n I love the concept but admit that there is little chance of it seriously taking hold\u00a0these days in any real way. Hell, many people\u00a0barely acknowledge each others existance when sitting next\u00a0to you on a plane for 3 hours and God forbid the person across from you on a sub way seat catches you looking at them and you smile rather than immediately look away.\u00a0 It can lead to some incredibly awkward moments or worse.\u00a0 So call me an idealist, (even if only the stray reader that stumbles across this blog is the only one that knows), but sometimes I wish I was brave enough to go stand out in Poughkeepsie square with a “Free Hugs” sign, even if only to make one strangers day a little brighter.\u00a0
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