Final Project of Free Hug Campaign

Hug, the Shortest Distance between Us

When we are sad or there are a lot of troubles that we have and we don’t know what to do, maybe a sincere hug from someone can make us calmer.  Maybe, it was the thought of the man who introduced Free Hug campaign when he decided to start this campaign.

The creator of this campaign was a man who was full of spirit that wanted to spread his love to other people through free hug campaign. The man walked around the street with a cupboard that said “Free Hug” with a capital letter. The man looked tidy with his grey trousers, blue shirt and maroon vest. He was also wearing glasses. The man who has long black hair looked very confident to carry the cupboard from one place to another place with friendly face and smile to everyone. The name of the man is Juan Mann. Juan Mann is the first person who campaign about free hug, he wanted to spread peaceful and love to the world through hugs the other people. He offered free hugs to strangers in public places.

 At first, people didn’t give any respond to Juan Mann. Some people just saw him, smiled, took his pictures and then they pass the man without giving attention to what the man did with his “Free Hug”. Juan Mann didn’t give up, he walk again and tried to get people’s attention. After several minutes, he met with an old woman. The old woman saw Juan Mann’s cupboard and ask Juan Mann to hug her. This old woman was the first person who gave her hug to Juan Mann. After that event, many people changed their mindset, they began to pay attention to Juan Mann. One by one people around him wanted to hug him.  They hug each other happily, and then they smile each other after they did it. After all people did the free hug campaign, something bad happened. Police banned the Free Hugs campaign, they tried to stop the campaign which conducted by Juan Mann. But, Juan Mann didn’t stop the campaign. He tried to explain the purpose of the campaign to the police. He made petition to get one thousand signatures from people who agree with this campaign. Fortunately many people were touched and support this campaign. They gave their signatures to support this campaign. Some people even tried to talk with the police and hug the police. In the end, the police allowed this campaign.

In short, Juan Mann tried to remind us to keep our togetherness as a human who can’t live individually. As we know nowadays, people are getting rarely to socialize with other people who they do not know. Juan Mann also reminds us to care about our environment and our social-life through his free hug campaign. We must share our love, happiness and respect to the others without differentiating each other.