Did you just say to yourself, “Fella, pray tell. What was he born to shout at us about?”
Fella to Dear Reader, “You Can’t Be Serious! Don’t you know he was born to shout at us You Can’t Be Serious!”
Fella’s strongly held belief is, “The Internet ought not to feel obligated to bring to us every Foolish morsel of Foolishness spoken by Foolish People”.
Little Joey from the movie Shane is visiting with me today and he just agreed with what Fella pecked out above by saying, “You are right, Fella, there’s too many!”
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Prepare yourself for, “encourages people to hug for 21 days consecutively, and to have each day a hug that lasts for a minimum of 21 seconds”.
This from the Internet...
Health Benefits of Hugging
“Hugging has been proven to have health benefits. One study has even
shown that hugs increase levels of oxytocin and
reduce blood pressure. Hugging can also buffer against
the release of the stress hormone cortisol if
a romantic partner hug is shared before a stressful situation. This effect was
however only observed for women and not for men.
Based on significant research indicating that a 20-second-or-longer hug
releases oxytocin, motivational speaker Leo
Buscaglia encourages people to hug for 21 days consecutively, and to
have each day a hug that lasts for a minimum of 21 seconds. He recommends ‘getting
lost in the hug’, encouraging people to slow down and ‘use the power of the hug
to be fully present in the moment’.”
Fella is particularly distraught with himself today. He
tried to do what the Internet told him above (don’t we all try to do what the
Internet tells us to do?) but he messed up. He only did 20 days and 20 seconds
and, instead of fixing everything, he fixed nothing.
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As if that was not
enough the Internet also contains this...
Prepare yourself for, “Similar to hugging, cuddling is a more affectionate and intimate embrace, normally done for a longer period of time (usually lasting from a few minutes to several hours)”.
You read it right. It actually reads...“several hours”.
Cuddling
Cuddling is a related form of physical
intimacy in which two people hold one another with each other's arms
wrapped around the other's body for an extended period of time. Cuddling can be
with family members, friends or lovers. Similar to hugging, cuddling is a more
affectionate and intimate embrace, normally done for a longer period of time
(usually lasting from a few minutes to several hours). In contrast to hugging,
which can often be a nonverbal greeting or parting
tradition, cuddling is usually shared between two people who are lying down
together or sitting somewhere in an intimate manner. Like hugging, cuddling
makes the body release oxytocin, which has a variety of effects. In some cities
around the United States, cuddling has evolved into a social activity, where
individuals gather for the purpose of cuddling.[20]
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Thank heaven the Internet was not around when Alexander
Graham Bell was working on his Telephone Thingy. We would be still talking
through tin cans with string between them, if, just when he got close to making
any breakthrough, the Internet Loudspeaker in his laboratory would have shouted
out, “Now hear this. Now hear this. It’s
cuddle time! Stop whatever you are doing and cuddle for the next several hours!”
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OK, I got carried away...Or did I?
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
Lagniappe: This
picture had 2 different captions: 1st was, “Group hug among young men” and the 2nd one was, “Bromances”.
Which do you like best?
