Let me preface this blog by letting you know that I hate to shop. I do not enjoy wandering around malls looking for a bargain. I prefer to do most of my shopping online and I even find that irritating at times.
So maybe I’m biased when I say I think ‘Black Friday’ is my idea of hell and I think most people who engage in waiting outside a store for its 3am opening are just insane. The sad fact is this though…I know a lot of people that I love and respect that do go out and do this. They buy a paper on Thanksgiving and spend hours studying the sale papers deciding their ‘game plan’. Then get to bed early after an afternoon glutton fest so they can wake up early to go get their perfect sale items.
This whole event saddens me. First and foremost, because it reminds me of what a hollow and fake holiday that both Thanksgiving and Christmas have become. Society has literally driven me to not want to celebrate these holidays. Not because I do not believe in what they stand for, but because I don’t want to be associated with the idiocy that most of the rest of America thinks is the norm. Thanksgiving should be spent with family and friends, enjoying the little bit of time we get to spend together during what always ends up being a mad dash to the end of the year. Relaxing, laughing, eating great food, and just enjoying life. Call me crazy, but I think any woman who is forced to spend the whole day cooking and stressing about preparing the meal for everyone should boycott next year. Make everyone who joins you bring a fix-in so that you don’t have to spend the day doing it all. Let everyone do a little bit of work so that you can all spend equal amounts of time enjoying the fruits of your labor.
This brings me to Christmas. The Christmas season does not begin the day after Thanksgiving and end Christmas Day. In fact, Christmas Day is the first day of the 12 days of Christmas, not the last. The Christmas season technically ends on the Epiphany (Feast of the Three Kings) on January 6th. So it pisses me off to no end, these people who spout off at the mouth about how ‘Christian’ and knowledgeable they are and they can’t even get the celebrations correct. I hate how the day after Christmas, everyone pulls down their Christmas tree and decorations when, in fact, the celebration is just beginning! Unfortunately since most everyone has been celebrating since the day after Thanksgiving, I can understand they must be tired of it. In fact, I can’t even listen to the radio during the month of December or else I hate all Christmas carols by the time Christmas actually rolls around.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that I hate how the retail business has exploited the holidays and made it nearly impossible for me to enjoy. And what I hate more is that because American society is made up of sheeple (people who follow the masses like sheep) we let them do it! We follow whatever the retailers ‘tell’ us to do. I refuse. In fact, this year I am barely shopping. Why? Not because I can’t afford to but because getting and giving a housefull of gifts are not what the holidays are about. The holidays are about spending time with the ones we love while we still have time to do so…because sometimes this could be the last time. My dad didn’t live to see this holiday season and I want to do right by him by spending the time I do have left with the ones I love. I couldn’t care less about the gifts. All I want for Christmas is to have my family and friends close and to enjoy my life as it is.
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