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I recently wrote a blog post on soul hugging, and something I touched on was the idea of hugging total strangers for a whole minute. Gasp! It was just a minor chord in the piece but it seems to have captured people’s imagination and I thought I would explore it further.
I wonder what the psychic impact on the world would be if we had places where it was socially acceptable to hug strangers. In my mind, the ambiance would be more spiritual like a church than like a single’s bar. Embracing strangers would be respected, even revered. Whether it was free-form or facilitated, people could visit this venue to give and receive long embraces with anybody.
Making connections on Facebook
When I first began playing on Facebook I took the term “friends” much more in harmony with my own love of real-life friendship. A friend was someone I knew, liked, and shared intimately with, by which I mean share our life stories and our feelings in an authentic way.
I didn’t feel right making friends on Facebook with people who weren’t real-life friends. It just seemed weird. But I discovered that I quickly maxed out on people I knew in real life to be friends with and many of my real-life friends didn’t hang on Facebook nor were they that crazy about email correspondence.
