So, I had the perfect idea for today long before I even through that 1st song in Youtube and do you think I can remember it for the life of me? Of course not...
It's funny, when I forget stuff, I'll go back and walk around where I was standing when the idea came to me and often it'll trigger it, but now, I don't even remember where it was when I had it.
Sad to say that yet again, yesterday was a no write or blog day, although Kari and I did have a great walk last night, we went at about 10p.m. or so, so it was nice, there was a slight breeze and it was enough to keep the bugs away, although the trail around the neighborhood is pretty good for being bug free if we wait till after dark.
I don't want to cop out on a blog today but right now, there's nothing really flowing so instead, I'm going to post this link:
The long and short of it is that it's a guy who goes around offers free hugs.
The Free Hugs campaign in its present form was started by Juan Mann on June 30, 2004, when he began giving out hugs in the Pitt St Mall in central Sydney the months prior to this, Mann had been feeling depressed and lonely as a result of numerous personal difficulties. However, a random hug from a stranger made an enormous difference, with Mann stating that "...I went out to a party one night and a completely random person came up to me and gave me a hug. I felt like a king! It was greatest thing that ever happened."
I remember reading on the news one time about how throughout the US, there are groups you can join where you can sleep (actual sleep, NOT sex) w/ a group of people if you want. The whole point is for people who want/crave/need that human contact, people are so deprived of affection that this is how they manage. It's very sad to think about how much it would suck to not have that kind of affection from anyone, they interviewed one person who said the 1st time she went and they hugged her that she just broke down and bawled, it had been years since she'd been given a hug by anyone and she was a perfectly "normal" business woman... My heart broke.
I honestly wonder how people who don't have anyone do it, I was lucky to grow up in a household where we were affectionate and my wife especially, she's a mirror image of me in that regards, we're both physical people.
The pic. of the day is me and a half hug while taking a pic. at Rockefeller Centre in NYC last Nov.
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