Group Hug
I wonder how come I didn’t stumble upon Group Hug before. It seems far more “real” than PostSecret to me, because more feeling drips into a small piece of text that you just write when you feel the need to than into a card that you take time to create and then send.
Unfortunately, there is a lot of meanness there, but why should anybody be surprised? As I keep saying, most people are nothing but selfish, violent morons who enjoy trampling all over the few who are different. No, unfortunately evilness is not surprising and we’re all to blame for that, for accepting and even encouraging it. Just think of how many parents teach their children to take care of their own interests because nobody else will and that if you’re not ruthless in life you’ll never get anywhere, “because everybody else is”.
But there are still people who have feelings. And many of them are hurt by the rest or simply by life itself… And it doesn’t matter whether the issue looks major or minor for somebody else, because as long as it’s serious for the person affected by it, it’s serious. That said, I want to tell all of you that I’m thinking of you and wishing things will get better. I don’t mean I wish you’ll get over it, but that I wish the problem that’s currently causing you pain will be solved the way you want it to be solved, as long as nobody else not deserving of such pain will be hurt in the process.
There are a lot of people I’ll never know that I simply wish I could give a hug to these days, though I know it won’t be of much real help.
And for anybody interested, there is a Romanian “version” of Group Hug: Nobo. I read all the confessions posted there so far and I’m pleased to notice that there seem to be significantly less mean or obviously fake ones than on Group Hug. Probably has to do with the fact that not many people know about it yet, because I doubt we’re less mean or more truthful than the rest of the world overall, but also with a better moderation process.
