Ah the Holidays
A time when we give gifts from obligation, due to getting the gift first.
The one time in the year that we give to a charitable organization, like throwing in a dollar, here and there, to the random salvation army "cans," just to feel like, yes, we really have made a difference this year. (Good for you. Ill award you the noble peace prize)
A time where family members that don't even like each other, sing carols together around a tree
A time where relatives hug and say "I've missed you. What is going on in your life," like they really care. Yet they don't take the time to give you a 5 minute phone call every once in a blue moon during the year
A time where people commit suicide because they don't have the money to buy their kids a single gift, and they feel like a failure..... or because they don't have a family to celebrate with, and feel alone
A time where children rip apart paper covered gifts, just for the toys that in a few weeks will be collecting dust their closets.
And the wrapping paper, made from the trees that give us the air that we breathe, that were ripped down just to cover a material item, are thrown away without any thought to recycling and preserving this substance
A time where we celebrate the birth of Jesus who in fact wasn't even born remotely around the month of December (nothing against that, just find it odd)
A time where we support a jolly fat man, distributing gifts, in support of the superficial material world, and then we wonder why we never have enough "stuff" to "make us" happy
Happy holidays
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