Have you ever noticed how powerful a simple hug is? I started thinking about it yesterday, and realized that a hug can mean a million different things and all of them powerful.
When I'm feeling really stressed out and it seems that nothing is going right, my friends offer a strong hug to convey that everything is gonna work out all right in the end.
When you hear good news and want to offer congratulations, without even thinking about it, you give them an excited, sometimes even a jumping up and down hug.
Well yesterday, I was just in the mood where I really wanted that physical connection to people. At lunch I told both Alex (my roommate) and Nathan
that all I wanted was a hug. And each hug made me smile, they made me feel that I was connected to someone and that I mattered to someone.
Hugs are one of the things I always loved about going to Camp Judson in the summers, we hugged all the time. Hugs meant good morning, good night, you're important to me, and I care about you. When I would go home after that week it felt as though I had gone into withdrawals because all that physical contact and connection was so diminished.
And when I'm seperated from friends and family the first thing I want to do when I see them again is hug them. I haven't seen my mom in months, but she'll be coming down to celebrate my 21st birthday, and I know that as soon as I see her I'll run to her and hug her and feeling her arms lock around me will make the months that go by matter less because I'll have her for now.
So this is my challenge to myself right now: hug more, and love more, and show my friends more that they mean something to me. Because I know that if hugs mean this much to me and can make a tough day seem bearable and a good day seem better, then that's something I want to share with others.
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