From Natalja:
After studying seriously your lines I admit that I don't understand anything.
Why do you emphasize that "free", it's always free. What's the opposite to a free hug?
Why do we need a campaign for it?
We are embracing and huging each other everywhere and at any time from dawn till dusk, it's fun and quite normal to all of us.
I feel abashed, Natalja, for having wasted your time as you seriously studied my lines.
From your surprise about my proposal, it's obvious that you are yourself a young easy-going liberated girl. So much the better. Keep living so, embracing and hugging everyone everywhere at all times. If I am not mistaken you don't do it from dusk to dawn. It's just so much non sense for my part to think you could.
Liberty in behavior is not granted to every human being on the planet.
Firstly, as you must know, it was today the worldwide International Women's Day. You might have been watching on the telly the so many demonstrations that took place in most of the big cities. If you had your finger on the pulse about the fate of women in many countries, notably in Africa, you would be aware that so many women aren't so much free
Secondly, you said any hug is free. Do yo think that Putin and Bush hugging each other some months ago were actually acting a free hug? Do you think that Sarko hugging Bashar al-Assad was really sincere? And Shimon Peres hugging Mahmoud Abbas? Do you think that the so many handshakes, hugs and kisses exchanged every day in the workplaces, the entertainment centers and any public areas are free true greetings? I for one think that most of them are out of habit, of standard of behavior, for convenience or by necessity, if not Judas' kisses. All that I call the opposite of a free hug.
If a Free Hugs campaign took place of late, I think it came from the USA and spread over most western countries. Did you in the very least view the videos broadcast by You Tube or anyone else? Even though it's the expression of a fad, it reminded me the struggle for freeing the morals, the habits and the language that thrived in the atmosphere of MAI 68, it reminded me the Living Theater, the happenings and off-off Broadway plays. No doubt, Natalja, you must think I am a decrepit out-of-date has-been. Thinking so, Natalja, you got the ticket: I am. But the Free Hugs campaign has been launched by youngsters of your age.
You are one of the many today's lucky so-and-so, Natalja. Keep being!
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6 March 2009