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Thursday, January 18, 2007
Cycles
My son sent me the link to this video: Badly Drawn Boy - Year of the Rat .
Besides permanently implanting the words, "Everybody needs to know it's the year of the rat" into my mind, the video inspired me to look up info on the Year of the Rat.
One of the more interesting sites I found explained that the year of the Rat, which will occur in 2008, marks the beginning of the 12-year cycle of the Chinese calendar.
I like cycles.
But that is not what I want to write about. I want to write about the video. It is simple. In it, someone is mad, we hug him or her, and they change. A factory spews toxic clouds. We hug it and it stops spewing and the air clears. If only...
BUT, what if it is really true? Maybe not quite so obviously true.... but what if it's true that changes will occur if we give love to those that spew venom of hate or toxic chemicals (or both)? What if we don't contribute to the cycle of anger and injury?
Besides permanently implanting the words, "Everybody needs to know it's the year of the rat" into my mind, the video inspired me to look up info on the Year of the Rat.
One of the more interesting sites I found explained that the year of the Rat, which will occur in 2008, marks the beginning of the 12-year cycle of the Chinese calendar.
I like cycles.
But that is not what I want to write about. I want to write about the video. It is simple. In it, someone is mad, we hug him or her, and they change. A factory spews toxic clouds. We hug it and it stops spewing and the air clears. If only...
BUT, what if it is really true? Maybe not quite so obviously true.... but what if it's true that changes will occur if we give love to those that spew venom of hate or toxic chemicals (or both)? What if we don't contribute to the cycle of anger and injury?
Have you tried it?
(Really...This is an audience participation question. On one person's blog, I was reading a post about how he made a snide comment to someone who butted in line - out loud for all to hear. This blogger got about 40 gazillion comments - 99.9 % supportive. I ask: how do we stop the war if we don't stop it right here when someone butts in line or wherever we are? Or... do we really want to stop the war? Would we rather be right?)
posted by Carol at 8:13 AM
2 Comments:
I really liked this video! We all need a hug. Perhaps we're all a bit too cranky because our hug-o-meter is stuck on low.
This video reminds me of the guy who did the original YouTube video giving free hugs in public and started the whole "free hugs movement". Here's an interview with him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJC28OCYBwY
Oh! Audience participation! I love it!!!
Thanks for the update on the hugging guy. I love his name: One man. er...Juan Mann.
Too bad W's body guards probably wouldn't let us hug him. And he needs it really badly.
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