Before reading this post I'd like to say for the record, I do not encourage anyone to hug right now unless the person you are hugging is in your "bubble" and hopefully COVID free. One of my new favorite quotes from a book I recently read is about hugs:
"When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else."
I happen to be a hugger and believe I can tell a lot from the way a person hugs. Let me rephrase, I am a selective hugger (which maybe says a lot more about me than I wish)*. Emotion tends to translate through hugs and having not been able to hug friends and family in a while, it's one of the few interpersonal actions I miss**.
Anyway, any guesses where that quote exists?
* I am known to hug random people...I apparently appear very maternal to individuals under stress and having offered a hug to those people, they willingly accepted (and they weren't pickpockets!). I also rarely turn down a hug.
** I sound terrible saying this, but I don't miss much about social interaction. I miss only a smidgen about it...all the rest I manage to continue on with virtually or in some other manner to meet my own personal needs. I don't feel like I need interpersonal moments. But hugs...yea, I miss hugs.
