I’ve got an idea. Let’s rename Christmas
Give Me Day. The day when we expect and want to receive gifts, preferably of
what we want. And what we don’t want we can always re-gift it or give it to the
needy, after all that’s what the needy are there for – so we can give them our
junk.
In a way it’s hilarious. We rush out to
get gifts as we MUST get them in time for the twenty fifth of December, no
matter what the cost, frequently running up debt that we really can’t afford. (I
don’t recall a law saying this, but I must be mistaken.) We endure crowded
stores, streets and parking lots, plus thieves, for the privilege of buying
these gifts. We rest on Christmas Day, well sort of rest. Usually we’re having
family and friends over for dinner or going to family or friends for dinner.
Then the very next day we’re back to the crowded stores, streets and parking
lots to buy the other things we want to go deeper into debt as now there are
better sales on.
To encourage the mood we have Santa Claus
or, as I call him, Money Claus for his sole purpose is to get people to spend
on their children and to feel bad if they don’t. And there’s then there’s the parade
of endless Christmas movies and music. Ho! Ho! Ho! Come January the debt
collectors are knocking at our door to collect the debts we racked up.
And if someone should chose not to follow
the gift giving ways they’re either pitted or considered a freak. Actually what
we do is praise the fools. We pretend we really admire them, when, to be
perfectly honest, we think they’re idiots as it’s something we wouldn’t do
ourselves.
And it’s not just the poor we don’t really
care about. It’s the environment. Eat, drink, be merry and destroy for tomorrow
we die and the sooner we die the better is obviously our philosophy. The
environment never enters our thoughts as we drive our motor vehicles to the
crowded store and make our purchases.
Now obviously I’m exaggerating as there
are some people, who get and receive gifts, who really do watch their budgets,
give to the poor and take into consideration the environment in their choice of
transportation to the stores and in their choices of gifts.
All of us need to be more like these
people and care more than just for ourselves and our families, but for those
less fortunate and for the environment. We need to make Christmas not Give Me
Day, but Give You Day and make it a year round thing.
