Today I received an email from a friend, who is dealing with his mother’s declining health. He told me that a few weeks ago he was in a local food co-op and the gravity and fullness of his mother’s situation caught up with him.
As he quietly sobbed at the soup counter, a young woman who worked there walked by and said, “You look like you could use a hug. Would you like one?”
“Yes,” he replied, as he accepted her hug. As they parted, he thanked her for the “kindness of strangers.”
At the end of this story, he shared with me the following video. I watched it and cried. How often do each of us need a hug, need human contact, need the comfort of knowing someone cares enough to show us kindness—to see us, to feel our pain and to touch our souls? Often. More often than we admit even to ourselves.
Watch this video. Then go out and hug someone.
