Free Hugs

Free Hugs was started by Juan Mann (a pseudonym for 'one man') in 2004 but only became popular after a video appeared on You Tube in 2006 thanks to a cool song 'All The Same' by Aussie group Sick Puppies. The video was shot at The Pitt Street Mall in Sydney by Sick Puppies lead singer Shimon Moore and has to date gotten over 21 million hits.

International Free Hugs Day On the forum of the official Free Hugs campaign website, Juan Mann called for an annual International Free Hugs Day, to be celebrated every year on the first weekend after June 30; the first such day was July 7, 2007, also known as 7/7/07. The purpose of the day is to promote the Free Hugs Campaign. The organizers are hoping that hundreds of people around the world will be distributing free hugs on this day. http://www.freehugscampaign.org/

All The Same
I don’t mind where you come from
As long as you come to me
I don’t like illusions I can’t see them clearly
I don’t care no I wouldn’t dare
To fix the twist in you
You’ve shown me eventually what you’ll do

I don’t mind…I don’t care…As long as you’re here
Go ahead tell me you’ll leave again
You’ll just come back running
Holding your scarred heart in hand
It’s all the same
And I’ll take you for who you are
If you take me for everything
Do it all over again
It’s all the same

Hours slide and days go by
Till you decide to come
However long you stay
Is all that I am
I don’t mind…I don’t care…As long as you’re here

Go ahead tell me you’ll leave again
You’ll just come back running
Holding your scarred heart in hand
It’s all the same
And I’ll take you for who you are
If you take me for everything
Do it all over again
It’s always the same

Go ahead say it you’re leaving
You’ll just come back running
Holding your scarred heart in hand
It’s all the same
And I’ll take you for who you are
If you take me for everything
Do it all over again
It’s all the same