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Free Hugs...Because We All Need One!
2006年，一名澳大利亚人Juan Mann，在澳州悉尼闹区街头发起了给予陌生人“Free Hugs”的活动，传达一种来自陌生人的关怀。随着这个活动的视频短片在著名YouTube网站上的传播分享，这个充满温柔和真情的自由拥抱活动的热潮迅速蔓延……
近来，自由拥抱活动在中国的风靡引发了褒贬不一的各方评论，究竟这是一种矫情作秀还是一种拒绝冷漠的自由拥抱？小编在此不作过多评价。当我看到了Juan Mann的视频短片时，感动之余的我只想到了一句话：Sometimes, a hug is all what we need.
在这个钢筋混凝土的城市里，网络拉近了人与人之间的距离，你甚至可以和另一个半球的陌生人面对面聊天，却会忽略了身边的人。你可以通过网络和陌生人促膝长谈，却很少和自己的邻居说一句话。每天我们都会遇见许多陌生的脸孔，大家目光接触时大多都带着警觉、排斥甚至敌意，害怕受到伤害的我们选择了保持距离。面对来自陌生人的拥抱，我们有没有张开双臂的勇气呢？至少让我们学会微笑，因为多一个微笑，多一份温暖！
——Tracy
When was the last time you were hugged?
A hug is a 1)universal symbol of support and concern, or just a way of saying, “I’m here and I matter.” Research shows that we need at least three hugs a day to grow and become a better person. There is nothing like the2)relief of hugging someone you have been worried about, the sweet hug of a child or the embrace of a loved one you haven’t seen in a while.
When I saw the video of Free Hugs and the 3)Cuddle King, Juan Mann behind the latest 4)YouTube 5)sensation, I was really touched.
Every time in Wal-Mart or walking along Carolina 6)Avenue shopping, we are polite. We don’t often brush past each other and try to get into each other’s space and that is fine. I certainly 7)appreciate that space from time to time. But, I need a hug some days. I watch others pass my way. Alone. Could they by no fault of their own be raised by a family of non-huggers, or live for years at a time with no hugs at all? And I wonder, what would an invitation to a free hug do for them?
In fact, Free Hugs was inspired by founder Jason Hunter’s mother Mrs. Josephine Clayton Hunter, who passed away in 2001. Sitting at his mother’s8)funeral service, Jason listened as almost every speaker shared how Mrs. Hunter loved hugging people and letting them know how much they mattered. Touched by the speakers, Jason acted on this inspiration and walked the streets of his hometown, Miami’s South Beach, with a sign that simply stated, “FREE HUGS”. Hence, FREE HUGS was born.
In 2006, an Australian, Juan Mann, started the Free Hugs 9)Campaign. The serial hugger describes the free hugs he hands out in Pitt Street Mall as fast-food emotion. “It’s a way to make people smile. For every person who gets a hug, you see five walk past with a smile on their face,” He said.
On the 10)Oprah Winfrey Show, he recalled, “I’d been living in London when my world turned 11)upside down and I had to come home. By the time my plane landed back in Sydney, all I had left was a carry-on bag full of clothes and a world of troubles. No one to welcome me back, no place to call home. I was a tourist in my hometown. Standing there in the arrivals 12)terminal, watching other passengers 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 be happy to see me. To smile at me. To hug me.
So I got some cardboard and a marker and made a sign. I found the busiest 13)pedestrian 14)intersection in the city and held that sign aloft, with the words “Free Hugs” on both sides.
And for 15 minutes, people just stared right through me. The first person who stopped, tapped me on the shoulder and told me how her dog had just died that morning. How that morning had been the one year 15)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, we put our arms around each other and when we parted, she was smiling.
Everyone has problems and for sure mine haven’t compared, but to see someone who was once 16)frowning smile even for a moment is worth it every time.
I would just like to thank 17)Sick Puppies for their incredible song All the Same, which the free hugs campaign video would have never been the same without.”
His cuddling campaign received an international 18)dose of publicity today, after a clip showing his public displays of affection won a 19)coveted front page spot on the video sharing website. The YouTube video of 2006 came about after a meeting, and a hug, more than a year ago with the lead singer of the Sick Puppies, a Sydney band.
“I was one of those guys in Pitt Street Mall with a sandwich board advertising a shoe sale,” the singer, Shimon Moore told.
The two became mates, and Moore borrowed his father’s video camera to shoot 20)footage of the hug man at work.
“He’s achieved what he set out to do and I was lucky enough to be there to film it,” Moore said.
But his efforts to spread the love became a little too popular for some people’s liking, according to a 21)blurb on the YouTube video, which said: “As this symbol of human hope spread across the city, police and officials ordered the Free Hugs campaign 22)banned.”
23)Undeterred, Mann collected more than 10,000 signatures on a petition he presented to the City of Sydney council. Demands for a 24)halt to the hugs petered out shortly after, and the end of the clip shows Mann hugging an official.
City worker Elly Mitchell, who handed out a few free hugs on herlunch break today, said she was inspired to organise the event after seeing the video online.
“We’re going to hug the city,” Ms Mitchell said.
A City of Sydney spokesman, Josh MacKenzie, said he could find no record of 25)rangers asking Mann to move on.
“In fact, the feeling around the office is one of support for his campaign to spread a bit of happiness and love in the central business district,” the spokesman said.
Asked if he had accepted a free hug, the council spokesman said he hadn’t, “But I’m sure council staff would welcome the opportunity to have a hug,” he said.
你最近一次被人拥抱是什么时候？
拥抱是一种世界通用的语言，它象征着支持、关心，或者只是表示“我在这儿，我不容忽视。”研究表明我们每天至少需要3次拥抱才能健康成长，成为一个更优秀的人。拥抱你一直担忧挂念的人能让你如释重负。一个小孩子的温馨拥抱，或者来自一位久别的爱人的拥抱，都给人带来无与伦比的感觉。
当我在YouTube网站看到最近轰动一时的《自由拥抱和拥抱王胡安·曼恩》的视频短片时，我被深深地感动了。
每次在沃尔玛或者沿着卡罗莱纳大道购物的时候，我们都礼貌有加。我们不会碰到彼此，努力不侵入他人的空间。这些当然很好，我有时也很看重这样的个人空间。可有的时候，我需要的是一个拥抱。我看着其他人独自一人从我身边经过。他们是不是在一个从不拥抱的家庭里长大？或者他们已经多年没有拥抱过任何人了？这些都不是他们自己的过错。我不禁揣想，如果向他们发出自由拥抱的邀请，那会怎么样呢？
其实，自由拥抱的灵感来自它的创始人贾森·亨特的母亲约瑟芬·克莱顿·亨特太太，她于2001年离开了人世。在母亲的葬礼上，贾森听到致辞者几乎无一不提到亨特夫人很喜欢拥抱他人，喜欢让他们知道自己在乎他们。贾森被这些话深深打动了，他灵机一动，就举起一块写有“自由拥抱”字样的牌子，在他家乡迈阿密南湾的街道四处游行。“自由拥抱”就这样诞生了。
2006年，澳大利亚人胡安·曼恩发起了自由拥抱活动。这位连环拥抱者描述自己在皮特街购物中心进行的自由拥抱属于一种快餐式情感。“这是让大家微笑的一种方法。每当有一个人被拥抱，你会看到5个路人的脸上都带着微笑。”他说道。
在奥普拉·温弗瑞脱口秀节目里，胡安回忆道：“当我的生活变得一塌糊涂时，我正住在伦敦，我得回家来。可等我乘坐的飞机在悉尼降落时，属于我的只有一手提包的衣服和数不清的麻烦事。没有人欢迎我的归来，我也没有了家。在自己的家乡，我成了一名游客。站在终点站的机场大厅，看着其他乘客与来接飞机的家人朋友相见，微笑着张开双臂，彼此拥抱欢笑。我也希望有人在那里等我，很高兴见到我，对我微笑，给我拥抱。
“于是我找来一块纸板和一支粗笔，做了一个牌子。我在市里最繁忙的十字路口，高高举起那块牌子，牌子的两面都写着‘自由拥抱’。
“在头15分钟里，过往的人只是盯着我看。第一个停下来的人拍拍我的肩膀，告诉我她的狗那天早上死了。而那天也正好是她惟一的女儿的周年祭日，她一年前出车祸死了。当时她觉得自己是世界上最孤独的人了，她最需要的就是一个拥抱。我单膝跪下，我们张开双臂搂住对方。我们分开的时候，她面带笑容。
“每个人都有很多麻烦事，相比之下，我的麻烦显得微不足道。不过，每次看到一度皱着眉头的人露出笑容，即使就那么一下，也就什么都值了。
我也想感谢Sick Puppies乐队，如果没有他们那首非同寻常的《都一样》，自由拥抱活动的这个短片就不会像现在这么流行了。”
胡安在公开场合表达情感的短片在视频共享网站YouTube占据了让人羡慕的首页位置后，他的拥抱活动便在世界范围内获得了广泛的关注。2006年度YouTube网站的拥抱短片是在他和悉尼乐队Sick Puppies的主唱一年多以前相遇并拥抱后两人一起创作出来的。
该乐队的主唱斯蒙·穆尔说：“我当时在皮特街购物中心为鞋子做减价促销的广告，当时身上也挂着个广告牌。”
就这样两人成了好友，穆尔向他父亲借来了摄像机，记录这位拥抱活动者的工作片段。
“他做了他想做的事，而我也有幸能在场记录下这一切。”穆尔如是说。
不过胡安传递爱的行动太过火了，一度引起一些人的不悦。YouTube上的一个视频节目片段声称：“随着这个象征人类希望的活动在悉尼越传越广，警察和官方下令禁止自由拥抱活动。”
胡安并没有因此退怯，他写了一份请愿书，并征集了10000多个签名，然后将其递交给悉尼市议会。很快，要求禁止自由拥抱活动的声音逐渐消失，在短片的结尾处，人们可以看到胡安正与一名官员拥抱。
市政职员埃莉·米切尔今天在午休时拥抱了别人好几次，她说自己是在看了那个短片后，受到了感动，才做出那些举动的。
“我们将拥抱这个城市。”米切尔女士说。
悉尼市的一位发言人乔希·麦肯齐说，他没能找到警察要求胡安离开拥抱地点的记录。
“事实上，在我们市议会的办公室里，大家是支持他在中心商业区传扬一些快乐与爱的讯息，”这位发言人这样说道。
这位市议会发言人被问到他是否曾被拥抱过，他说还没有。“但我相信议会的工作人员都会欢迎这样一个获得拥抱的机会。”他说。
Free Hugs...Because We All Need One!
2006年，一名澳大利亚人Juan Mann，在澳州悉尼闹区街头发起了给予陌生人“Free Hugs”的活动，传达一种来自陌生人的关怀。随着这个活动的视频短片在著名YouTube网站上的传播分享，这个充满温柔和真情的自由拥抱活动的热潮迅速蔓延……
近来，自由拥抱活动在中国的风靡引发了褒贬不一的各方评论，究竟这是一种矫情作秀还是一种拒绝冷漠的自由拥抱？小编在此不作过多评价。当我看到了Juan Mann的视频短片时，感动之余的我只想到了一句话：Sometimes, a hug is all what we need.
在这个钢筋混凝土的城市里，网络拉近了人与人之间的距离，你甚至可以和另一个半球的陌生人面对面聊天，却会忽略了身边的人。你可以通过网络和陌生人促膝长谈，却很少和自己的邻居说一句话。每天我们都会遇见许多陌生的脸孔，大家目光接触时大多都带着警觉、排斥甚至敌意，害怕受到伤害的我们选择了保持距离。面对来自陌生人的拥抱，我们有没有张开双臂的勇气呢？至少让我们学会微笑，因为多一个微笑，多一份温暖！
——Tracy
When was the last time you were hugged?
A hug is a 1)universal symbol of support and concern, or just a way of saying, “I’m here and I matter.” Research shows that we need at least three hugs a day to grow and become a better person. There is nothing like the2)relief of hugging someone you have been worried about, the sweet hug of a child or the embrace of a loved one you haven’t seen in a while.
When I saw the video of Free Hugs and the 3)Cuddle King, Juan Mann behind the latest 4)YouTube 5)sensation, I was really touched.
Every time in Wal-Mart or walking along Carolina 6)Avenue shopping, we are polite. We don’t often brush past each other and try to get into each other’s space and that is fine. I certainly 7)appreciate that space from time to time. But, I need a hug some days. I watch others pass my way. Alone. Could they by no fault of their own be raised by a family of non-huggers, or live for years at a time with no hugs at all? And I wonder, what would an invitation to a free hug do for them?
In fact, Free Hugs was inspired by founder Jason Hunter’s mother Mrs. Josephine Clayton Hunter, who passed away in 2001. Sitting at his mother’s8)funeral service, Jason listened as almost every speaker shared how Mrs. Hunter loved hugging people and letting them know how much they mattered. Touched by the speakers, Jason acted on this inspiration and walked the streets of his hometown, Miami’s South Beach, with a sign that simply stated, “FREE HUGS”. Hence, FREE HUGS was born.
In 2006, an Australian, Juan Mann, started the Free Hugs 9)Campaign. The serial hugger describes the free hugs he hands out in Pitt Street Mall as fast-food emotion. “It’s a way to make people smile. For every person who gets a hug, you see five walk past with a smile on their face,” He said.
On the 10)Oprah Winfrey Show, he recalled, “I’d been living in London when my world turned 11)upside down and I had to come home. By the time my plane landed back in Sydney, all I had left was a carry-on bag full of clothes and a world of troubles. No one to welcome me back, no place to call home. I was a tourist in my hometown. Standing there in the arrivals 12)terminal, watching other passengers 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 be happy to see me. To smile at me. To hug me.
So I got some cardboard and a marker and made a sign. I found the busiest 13)pedestrian 14)intersection in the city and held that sign aloft, with the words “Free Hugs” on both sides.
And for 15 minutes, people just stared right through me. The first person who stopped, tapped me on the shoulder and told me how her dog had just died that morning. How that morning had been the one year 15)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, we put our arms around each other and when we parted, she was smiling.
Everyone has problems and for sure mine haven’t compared, but to see someone who was once 16)frowning smile even for a moment is worth it every time.
I would just like to thank 17)Sick Puppies for their incredible song All the Same, which the free hugs campaign video would have never been the same without.”
His cuddling campaign received an international 18)dose of publicity today, after a clip showing his public displays of affection won a 19)coveted front page spot on the video sharing website. The YouTube video of 2006 came about after a meeting, and a hug, more than a year ago with the lead singer of the Sick Puppies, a Sydney band.
“I was one of those guys in Pitt Street Mall with a sandwich board advertising a shoe sale,” the singer, Shimon Moore told.
The two became mates, and Moore borrowed his father’s video camera to shoot 20)footage of the hug man at work.
“He’s achieved what he set out to do and I was lucky enough to be there to film it,” Moore said.
But his efforts to spread the love became a little too popular for some people’s liking, according to a 21)blurb on the YouTube video, which said: “As this symbol of human hope spread across the city, police and officials ordered the Free Hugs campaign 22)banned.”
23)Undeterred, Mann collected more than 10,000 signatures on a petition he presented to the City of Sydney council. Demands for a 24)halt to the hugs petered out shortly after, and the end of the clip shows Mann hugging an official.
City worker Elly Mitchell, who handed out a few free hugs on herlunch break today, said she was inspired to organise the event after seeing the video online.
“We’re going to hug the city,” Ms Mitchell said.
A City of Sydney spokesman, Josh MacKenzie, said he could find no record of 25)rangers asking Mann to move on.
“In fact, the feeling around the office is one of support for his campaign to spread a bit of happiness and love in the central business district,” the spokesman said.
Asked if he had accepted a free hug, the council spokesman said he hadn’t, “But I’m sure council staff would welcome the opportunity to have a hug,” he said.
你最近一次被人拥抱是什么时候？
拥抱是一种世界通用的语言，它象征着支持、关心，或者只是表示“我在这儿，我不容忽视。”研究表明我们每天至少需要3次拥抱才能健康成长，成为一个更优秀的人。拥抱你一直担忧挂念的人能让你如释重负。一个小孩子的温馨拥抱，或者来自一位久别的爱人的拥抱，都给人带来无与伦比的感觉。
当我在YouTube网站看到最近轰动一时的《自由拥抱和拥抱王胡安·曼恩》的视频短片时，我被深深地感动了。
每次在沃尔玛或者沿着卡罗莱纳大道购物的时候，我们都礼貌有加。我们不会碰到彼此，努力不侵入他人的空间。这些当然很好，我有时也很看重这样的个人空间。可有的时候，我需要的是一个拥抱。我看着其他人独自一人从我身边经过。他们是不是在一个从不拥抱的家庭里长大？或者他们已经多年没有拥抱过任何人了？这些都不是他们自己的过错。我不禁揣想，如果向他们发出自由拥抱的邀请，那会怎么样呢？
其实，自由拥抱的灵感来自它的创始人贾森·亨特的母亲约瑟芬·克莱顿·亨特太太，她于2001年离开了人世。在母亲的葬礼上，贾森听到致辞者几乎无一不提到亨特夫人很喜欢拥抱他人，喜欢让他们知道自己在乎他们。贾森被这些话深深打动了，他灵机一动，就举起一块写有“自由拥抱”字样的牌子，在他家乡迈阿密南湾的街道四处游行。“自由拥抱”就这样诞生了。
2006年，澳大利亚人胡安·曼恩发起了自由拥抱活动。这位连环拥抱者描述自己在皮特街购物中心进行的自由拥抱属于一种快餐式情感。“这是让大家微笑的一种方法。每当有一个人被拥抱，你会看到5个路人的脸上都带着微笑。”他说道。
在奥普拉·温弗瑞脱口秀节目里，胡安回忆道：“当我的生活变得一塌糊涂时，我正住在伦敦，我得回家来。可等我乘坐的飞机在悉尼降落时，属于我的只有一手提包的衣服和数不清的麻烦事。没有人欢迎我的归来，我也没有了家。在自己的家乡，我成了一名游客。站在终点站的机场大厅，看着其他乘客与来接飞机的家人朋友相见，微笑着张开双臂，彼此拥抱欢笑。我也希望有人在那里等我，很高兴见到我，对我微笑，给我拥抱。
“于是我找来一块纸板和一支粗笔，做了一个牌子。我在市里最繁忙的十字路口，高高举起那块牌子，牌子的两面都写着‘自由拥抱’。
“在头15分钟里，过往的人只是盯着我看。第一个停下来的人拍拍我的肩膀，告诉我她的狗那天早上死了。而那天也正好是她惟一的女儿的周年祭日，她一年前出车祸死了。当时她觉得自己是世界上最孤独的人了，她最需要的就是一个拥抱。我单膝跪下，我们张开双臂搂住对方。我们分开的时候，她面带笑容。
“每个人都有很多麻烦事，相比之下，我的麻烦显得微不足道。不过，每次看到一度皱着眉头的人露出笑容，即使就那么一下，也就什么都值了。
我也想感谢Sick Puppies乐队，如果没有他们那首非同寻常的《都一样》，自由拥抱活动的这个短片就不会像现在这么流行了。”
胡安在公开场合表达情感的短片在视频共享网站YouTube占据了让人羡慕的首页位置后，他的拥抱活动便在世界范围内获得了广泛的关注。2006年度YouTube网站的拥抱短片是在他和悉尼乐队Sick Puppies的主唱一年多以前相遇并拥抱后两人一起创作出来的。
该乐队的主唱斯蒙·穆尔说：“我当时在皮特街购物中心为鞋子做减价促销的广告，当时身上也挂着个广告牌。”
就这样两人成了好友，穆尔向他父亲借来了摄像机，记录这位拥抱活动者的工作片段。
“他做了他想做的事，而我也有幸能在场记录下这一切。”穆尔如是说。
不过胡安传递爱的行动太过火了，一度引起一些人的不悦。YouTube上的一个视频节目片段声称：“随着这个象征人类希望的活动在悉尼越传越广，警察和官方下令禁止自由拥抱活动。”
胡安并没有因此退怯，他写了一份请愿书，并征集了10000多个签名，然后将其递交给悉尼市议会。很快，要求禁止自由拥抱活动的声音逐渐消失，在短片的结尾处，人们可以看到胡安正与一名官员拥抱。
市政职员埃莉·米切尔今天在午休时拥抱了别人好几次，她说自己是在看了那个短片后，受到了感动，才做出那些举动的。
“我们将拥抱这个城市。”米切尔女士说。
悉尼市的一位发言人乔希·麦肯齐说，他没能找到警察要求胡安离开拥抱地点的记录。
“事实上，在我们市议会的办公室里，大家是支持他在中心商业区传扬一些快乐与爱的讯息，”这位发言人这样说道。
这位市议会发言人被问到他是否曾被拥抱过，他说还没有。“但我相信议会的工作人员都会欢迎这样一个获得拥抱的机会。”他说。