Christmas blues, too much of everything. If there is ever is/was a false holiday, this has to be it! At some point in history, Christmas had to be more giving experience for the soul. Now, I’m not trying to take the moral high ground. But come on, is this really the best way to celebrate the birthday of Christ? I can just see him, watching down from heaven and enjoying the sight of excesses. Children “coked” out, on copious amounts of sweets and gifts – and the horrible, horrible withdrawal syndromes that follows.
Some get “stressed out” by the expectation of giving the so called “perfect gift” (is truly hell if you have more than seventeen “perfect gifts” to deal with). I’m not going to write about the overeating and drinking – that will just take too much time and make me angry.
I know, I know… I’m not the first person to think this thought. In fact, just about everybody I know talks about it before, during and shortly after. Always in a paranoid and a not so positive way. Afterwords there seems to follow a global collective amnesia about the “hells of bells”. The worst thing of all – no action to alter our course. Everybody seems to forget that there always is a Christmas around the corner. Hmmmm…., I wonder what will happen next Christmas?
My Chrismas was better than i had expected. Our family had come to an arrangement where we all would downsize the “gift factor”. Of course, the small children exempt and got loads of gifts. I suppose we are i the progress of downsizing, hopefully…
I love the Chrismas dinner, being with the family and laying back. But the “gift factor”, just makes me go ballistic. I wouldn’t go so far and say it is a evil holiday, but it has too many drawbacks.
I will wish everybody a merry 2007 and hope we all will enjoy a less consumer orientated Chrismas in the future.
Well, A man can dream…
