I'm sure that I'm not the first to feel this way, but I think we're ruining Christmas by starting our celebrations too early. Hearing somebody wish me a Merry Christmas now has about the same emotional effect on me as getting rejected by a girl you never liked in the first place ("Oh, yeah, I guess I should care.").
Have you ever taken a sip of something intensely flavorful and just held it in your mouth for minutes on end? After a couple minutes you can't even taste it. Christmas was such a magical thing growing up. It was a tangible feeling in the air as The Day grew closer and closer. It was the smell of Douglas Fir and fresh cranberry cheesecake bars. It was Christmas music that wasn't about getting presents or having naughty thoughts about Santa. It seemed so much purer.
Now it seems like it's all about Black Friday as a measure of the health of the economy and squeezing every dollar out of "Ho-ho-ho".
I'm not a scrooge. I'm a Christmas idealist. Everyone just sucks at meeting my standards. I love Christmas and I have some very fond memories of past Christmases which I cherish. I just wish it were a little more like Channukahuhahkauhk or however you spell it - something shared between families and believers but otherwise almost entirely ignored by commercial America and the almighty dollar. Instead of human interest pieces showing the spirit of charity and giving and brotherly love of the season we see news bits of people running down an old lady in a wheelchair to buy the newest toy craze or talking about how they expected better product quality from a factory that pays it's employees $0.26 per day.
I know this is a rant and I'll probably apologise for it later, but that's how I feel.
$$$ H$O$! H$O$! H$O! M$E$R$R$Y C$H$R$I$S$T$M$A$S$! $$$
1 comment:
Dude, I agree 100%. Commercialism is ruining Christmas. Has been for a while, we're just more aware of it now then we were before. People can't even wait until December to start putting up decorations and stuff. It's sickening.
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