Free Hugs

I stumbled upon a video in Youtube today called "FreeHugs" and I thought that it must be some kind of joke. I decided to view the said video and I can actually feel the emotion going on in there. The video starts out with a person holding a placard advertising free hugs and you can see the people looking strangely at the said person and some other folks just totally ignores him.

In our world today, public actions like these are common and most are considered as pranks.
But once people started reacting positively to the message, individuals started accepting the free hugs given by this person. I was just watching the video and not in it but I can feel like I'm being hugged. And it's a great feeling.

It's true, we all need a hug. It feels as great to receive them as to give them.

An Apple A Day...

It's suppose to keep the doctors away. It must be true since that's what I've been doing for some time now and have yet to visit a doctor outside of my normal checkup schedule. I have it for my midday snack as well as a dessert for my lunch. After that, I'm not sure if I can look at another apple again.

There are many varities of apple and I normally pick the Washington or just the big red apples. Occasionally, I'd enjoy a green tart one and I have to stress on the word occasionally. I guess that would have to be an individual preference.

Granny Smith's are great for baking. It can be an apple struddle, a apple cake or just a plain apple pie. Mine would have to be an apple pie. I'd take a slice of that and topit with a scoop of vanilla ice cream with a little chocolate frosting. All these talk is making me hungry.

I haven't been to an apple orchard before. I think I'm going to put that in my list of things to do before I die. Not that I'm going to eat some over there. Well, maybe a couple. And probably get a 5 lb bag while in there too for my supply.

Apples also make great target shooting targets.

Ironmen

"Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17

I went to attend my very first ironman breakfast last Saturday and I can honestly say that I enjoyed it. No, I'm not talking about muscle building or stamina enhancing. This is about a group of men coming together to talk about life. The passage above sums it all up. Iron gets sharpened by using iron, so will man know his strength and weaknesses by way of his fellowmen.

It's a common fact that men tend to clam up and hide their feelings just because that's how society dictates it to be. But it doesn't have to be. I'm not saying this gathering is about a group of men showing their emotions. It's farthest from that. But this gathering does give the chance for anyone to understand that everyone has their own failings and that you don't have to go through life by yourself.

I'm not that religious and I will admit that. I do believe in a being higher than me that I talk to for just about anything. Maybe its just me trying to get things off my chest without feeling judged. I know it gets difficult sometimes since there's nothing tangible in front of me but I simply remedied that by getting a small rock and talking to it. Once I'm done, I just throw the rock away and feel that burden somehow lessens. It doesn't go away completely but I know it's something that can be handled.

I think I'll go back next month for that ironman breakfast. The theme last Saturday was about 48 minutes of gametime, an event to remember. The talk was about how decisions in our everyday life will affect our lives forever.

We will deal with the consequences of how we lived life.