it's my second time watching the video for the 'Free Hugs Campaign' and I am once again emotionally swayed in putting this up to spread humanity.

there's always a hellova controversy over how life has become less meaningful to live for these days even though we have improved so much on a global scale, just to prolong life expectancy, slash mass diseases, eliminate poverty as far as possible and etcetera; all at the expense of ali'l compassion. coming from the observation that people in the past were more contented with life than the population today, perhaps they were also closer to their neighbours.

alternatively, there's a minor likelihood that there is still enough 'love' to go around. only that the world has multiplied a hundred times over now, it's even harder for everyone to reach out to everyone else. just as a smaller family might be knitted closer than one of a larger number, the same applies to our current situation. then again, there are a million rebuttles against that.

on another note, one of the reasons why there's a change of heart could be incongruously due to the peace that we enjoy now. in the past, when life was alot harder to live by, everyone was compelled to draw closer for survival but as life gets increasingly easier to live by, people do not get by 'thick and thin' together and thus straining relations.

in any case, it doesnt call for a seizure of efforts made for a better living. if compassion should begin, it should begin with me. (:

PS: see, joan! I told you the profession would work! hehe. HUGS!