Hello boys and girls...hope you are all having a delicious day. Gommy was watching a beautiful video on YouTube today called 'Hug The World". It had the most amazing music by Enigma and the song was 'Return to Innocence". It was most inspiring to watch all these people, animals, friends, strangers, family members...hugging. But the kind of hugging that is done with abandon and not caring if anyone else sees you hugging. You can feel that they don't even know anyone else in the world is around at the time. It was just about hugging.....amazing, right? And such an easy thing to do......and it doesn't cost a little red cent. But it got Goms to thinking that we all need and want a great big helluva' hug at times.
Hugs are exchanged at times of sadness and at times of happiness or at times of sheer exhilaration at accomplishing something or when we may have failed at something, or when someone returns home after being away for a time, or perhaps at times when words just aren't enough. Hugs are soooo 'heartfelt' and emotion-filled that it would be a perfect world if we could just feel that emotion with every breath we take. If we could just, on a daily basis, emit that emotion ourselves and pour out the love and compassion that it evokes, our life and so many others would be all the better. Then, we would be spewing love all over and sending well wishes to the Universe and everyone and everything in it. Geesh.....what a concept.
If you ever have the time or inclination to watch the video Gommy is speaking of......you will 'get it'. You will actually 'feel' the emotions of the huggers while you are watching it. You will remember a hug you gave or received at one time and it can bring all that emotion flooding back to you. And you will understand that giving and receiving that sort of well wishing, empathy and care, is all it would take for us all to get along in this crazy world in which we live.
Gommy would like everyone to feel that good. And all it would take is to go out and hug someone and feel how great it feels to connect. It seems as if society has become too insular. We are stuck to our computers, or we spend so much of our time in an office at work. Or we live far away from our families and don't have the familiar community of the old days where everyone knew everyone else. Just try it....couldn't hurt right? You might even like it!
So, Gommy's lesson for today is to try to watch the video and you will find that you will be wanting to find someone or something to hug.....even if it is just a tree...trees need hugs too (and not just for politically correct reasons, tee-hee). You can stir that something, somewhere inside of you that has been missing for a long time. You can start with your own family. Give em' a hug....and not one of those pale, arms-length and pasty hugs. A great big loooooong hug with strong feelings. Hug em' like you mean it....you will get more back than you give....I Pinky Finger Promise you..... And here's a great big, warm, strong, emotion-filled hugs from Goms.......Hugs & Mush, Gommy.....PS....bet you want to sing a chorus of Kum Ba Yah don't ya'????? Go ahead.....that will work too...."Oh Lord, someone is laughing Lord!....Kum Ba Yah....Lord, someone is crying Lord!!...." See....same emotion....GO FOR IT KIDS... Gommy is pulling for ya'
