Published on 12, July, 2020
"It's the most horrible time of the year" I sing this every year. Lol. Christmas is the worst. A horrible nightmare that lasts too long and gets too much hype.
I saw in a shop today they're already selling Christmas sweets, calendars and I saw an advert on TV and it's not even been Halloween yet! But it begs the question...
What are you doing this Christmas?
Undoubtedly I'll have family over. The lights will be too bright. I'll be forced to socialise. And I'll have to go to the Christmas work party. December is a long old month. I hate it. Please someone shoot me with a sleeping dart and let me sleep through it.
"What are you doing this Christmas?" = Enduring it...pretending, to my best ability, that it isn't dreadful for the sake of the majority around me.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few in my world at Christmas time. This is fair (in my book) because they put up with all my s#*t for the other 364 days of the year with (generally) good grace, tolerance and understanding.
I do not mind Christmas day too much....but the "shopping" imperative to "give gifts" and the expectation that you will be "pleased" to receive pointless anonymous tat, drives me insane.
It is a commercial madness that I simply cannot understand and that results in pointless consumerism, wasted money and needless wasting of planetary resources.....for the sake of a "tradition" that has no basis in spirituality nor logic nor faith. Pointless.
When I say, "I want nothing, buy a goat for someone / donate for a toilet in Africa / find me something that costs nothing" people smile, knowingly, but ignore me.....and buy me fooking aftershave balm?!?! I recently had a clear-cut....7 pots and tubs of the unopened stuff was finally launched to landfill. Happy Christmas y'all.
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Number said:.but the "shopping" imperative to "give gifts" and the expectation that you will be "pleased" to receive pointless anonymous tat, drives me insane. It is a commercial madness that I simply cannot understand and that results in pointless consumerism, wasted money and needless wasting of planetary resources.....for the sake of a "tradition" that has no basis in spirituality nor logic nor faith. Pointless.
.but the "shopping" imperative to "give gifts" and the expectation that you will be "pleased" to receive pointless anonymous tat, drives me insane.
Exactly, right there! THAT is everything that is wrong with Christmas.
If the religious thing is your bag, good for you.
If the party thing is your bag, good for you, just don't expect every one else to party.
But the commercialism - sack santa, I say. Sack him! We'll all be the healthier and wealthier for it.
Amen. Literally. Dawn, your words are bang on - every single one of them.