The Free Hugs campaign started by Juan Mann whose sole mission was to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives. One day he arrived back in Sydney, Australia and no one greeted him at the airport. “Watching other passengers,” recalls Juan, “meeting their waiting friends and family, with open arms and smiling faces, hugging and laughing together, I wanted someone out there to be waiting for me. To smile at me. To hug me.” He got some cardboard and a marker and made a sign. He held the sign up at the busiest pedestrian intersection with the words “Free Hugs” on both sides. The first person who stopped told him how that morning had been the one year anniversary of her only daughter dying in a car accident. How what she needed now, when she felt most alone in the world, was a hug. “I got down on one knee,” says Juan, “we put our arms around each other and when we parted, she was smiling.”
clipped from www.positivenews.org.uk
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