I see it starting.
Every year, and it was like this back in the Canada days too, when the 'holidays' were approaching the members become extremely edgy and start to rip into each other. For the stupidest stuff too...things they would normally let go.
The holidays are so over-hyped and ramped-up, that most people get all tied up in it and without even really recognizing what's happening to them they become a monster. Hateful, irritable, insensitive and rude. They bark and snap at their friends and worse, their family.
Come about January 5th...they calm back down and return to their normal fairly-nice-guy self. They take all the Christmas decorations down, and it's like they just got released from jail.
The holidays are not the miracle time of year as written in children's books. It once was, but that horse-drawn buggy story is long over and now it's driven by materialism and self indulgence. Whether you want to have the homiest and charming-est dinner at Thanksgiving, or the Christmas tree has to be perfect and the star-shower light placed perfectly to illuminate the front of the house so people you don't even know can be impressed by your use of electricity.
For the life of me, I watch fiercely independent people who walk to their own drummer the rest of the year instantly become a pawn of the system they so vehemently oppose. Someone digs a hole and tells them 'hey jump in there' and they do, because you know, Christmas!
You have got to realize you're being played. The retail system is coming after you with a full frontal assault. "Correct" holiday behavior is being shoved down your throat. If you fall short you're a failure. It's designed to crush you and force you into compliance.
Don't do it. Don't jump into any holes. If people and family view you with disdain because you refuse to play along, then they never were really friends or family anyway now were they? If you need a defense in the face of a herd mentality, just say this;
You all laugh because I'm different, I laugh because you're all the same.
Every year, and it was like this back in the Canada days too, when the 'holidays' were approaching the members become extremely edgy and start to rip into each other. For the stupidest stuff too...things they would normally let go.
The holidays are so over-hyped and ramped-up, that most people get all tied up in it and without even really recognizing what's happening to them they become a monster. Hateful, irritable, insensitive and rude. They bark and snap at their friends and worse, their family.
Come about January 5th...they calm back down and return to their normal fairly-nice-guy self. They take all the Christmas decorations down, and it's like they just got released from jail.
The holidays are not the miracle time of year as written in children's books. It once was, but that horse-drawn buggy story is long over and now it's driven by materialism and self indulgence. Whether you want to have the homiest and charming-est dinner at Thanksgiving, or the Christmas tree has to be perfect and the star-shower light placed perfectly to illuminate the front of the house so people you don't even know can be impressed by your use of electricity.
For the life of me, I watch fiercely independent people who walk to their own drummer the rest of the year instantly become a pawn of the system they so vehemently oppose. Someone digs a hole and tells them 'hey jump in there' and they do, because you know, Christmas!
You have got to realize you're being played. The retail system is coming after you with a full frontal assault. "Correct" holiday behavior is being shoved down your throat. If you fall short you're a failure. It's designed to crush you and force you into compliance.
Don't do it. Don't jump into any holes. If people and family view you with disdain because you refuse to play along, then they never were really friends or family anyway now were they? If you need a defense in the face of a herd mentality, just say this;
You all laugh because I'm different, I laugh because you're all the same.
