AWESOME CARDS
“Small acts of kindness,
when multiplied by millions of people,
can transform the world.”
What is an Awesome Card?
It is both a gift and a tool for personal and cultural transformation.
The purpose of the Awesome Card is to encourage a culture of kindness and create an opening for ONE BIG HUG with a stranger.
The card is a small physical expression of heartfelt appreciation for a kind act. What better way to recognize someone than handing them a card that says “thank you for being an awesome human being”?
Just as with a shared hug, the card is equally gratifying and beneficial for both people. When you gift an Awesome Card to a stranger, for a true act of kindness, you will make their day, and you will also feel awesome. Real magic happens in this exchange.
This means that in order to fully experience the card’s true power, the receiver must, at some point, recognize the kindness of another, and gift the card forward. This card is not meant to hold on to. It is literally a gift that keeps on giving, creating a ripple of kindness. Imagine how many people can be positively affected by just one simple card.
Simply by keeping a couple Awesome Cards on you, and looking at them every now and then, will help to shift your own awareness to look out for kindness. By doing so, you will become an even kinder human (if you’re not already).
An Awesome Card creates an opening
for ONE BIG HUG with a stranger.
Hugging a stranger (especially someone different from you) is one of the most powerful things we can do to break down boundaries, reduce fear and hostility, crack open our hearts, spread love and help to heal ourselves, our country and our world.
Ideally, everyday, we’d all hug lots of random strangers in public. If we all began to do this, the world would be transformed in an instant.
But, unfortunately, based on current cultural norms, it is a little weird and socially awkward to approach a random stranger out of the blue, and give a hug, especially between two guys. If you are standing on the street with a “NEED HUGS” or “FREE HUGS” sign, it’s much more acceptable 🙂
Awesome Cards help create an opening. You’ve just acknowledged the person for being kind and gifted them a card, so it is more natural and acceptable to now ask for a hug. Plus, the last instruction on the card is to do just that–so the “permission” you need is written right on the card.
Awesome Cards circulate in two ways:
1. Seeds share hugs on the street with strangers and gift out Awesome Cards to each person. You may have received a card this way. Get involved—become a Seed and gift Awesome Cards into the world.
2. The second way is by getting your own batch of cards. Purchasing Awesome Cards is an act of kindness all by itself. 100% of the proceeds go to spreading the hug, and spreading more kindness. A purchase of just 50 cards, enables over 100 additional cards to be gifted into the world by Seeds.