Christmas and Shopping
Ah... for me the two do NOT go hand in hand. Seems wrong in many ways to me.
Even as a kid I felt some underlying guilt of accepting gifts on Christmas. My reasoning was why limit gifts to birthdays and a holiday (a no consumer-ruined holiday). I mean why not ANY day. I'm all about the random gift day. Why not? Is there some unwritten law that states on statute 17.3 of the charter bylaw paragraph 42 mentioning gifts limited to birthdays and Christmas... I think not.
I think that's why my kids loved me and thought I was different. Gifts are great anytime.
~ "What?!?! What is that, kids? A Nerf Gatling gun with 50 rounds of Nerf-a-licious goodness coming at you all at once... Think of the AWESOME fun we can have with that!!!! YO! Walmart dude! Get the ladder. I feel like making a purchase from the top shelf of the toys department, STAT!"
Yeah I only look like I would kick some ass. I have a soft heart especially for my kids... who, at this time. don't exactly apply much to the "kid" term.
But there is a time and place for those kind of things- gift giving I mean. I personally don't feel like Christmas is one of them. I always felt that Christmas, besides the obvious religious or spiritual reasons that one may partake in, Christmas, for me, was always a time of getting together with family and friends and celebrating being family and friends and truly feeling blessed we had each other in life. Dinners and football and laughing and catching up and eating a slice of pumpkin pie out of their... uhm... have your traditions I have mine.
Ah well... not to sound like a Scrooge but I'll be leaving again in drizzly, craptastic weather to head out and buy more gifts. Another sucker come and gone and broker like a joker. I am playing into the corporate machine consumernomics where everything is driven by what we buy. Today's fads... tomorrow's dust collecters... here I come.
Remember it's not about the gifts as it is the person giving them and the act of kindness behind it... whatever the gift may be.
Later gator...
Even as a kid I felt some underlying guilt of accepting gifts on Christmas. My reasoning was why limit gifts to birthdays and a holiday (a no consumer-ruined holiday). I mean why not ANY day. I'm all about the random gift day. Why not? Is there some unwritten law that states on statute 17.3 of the charter bylaw paragraph 42 mentioning gifts limited to birthdays and Christmas... I think not.
I think that's why my kids loved me and thought I was different. Gifts are great anytime.
~ "What?!?! What is that, kids? A Nerf Gatling gun with 50 rounds of Nerf-a-licious goodness coming at you all at once... Think of the AWESOME fun we can have with that!!!! YO! Walmart dude! Get the ladder. I feel like making a purchase from the top shelf of the toys department, STAT!"
Yeah I only look like I would kick some ass. I have a soft heart especially for my kids... who, at this time. don't exactly apply much to the "kid" term.
But there is a time and place for those kind of things- gift giving I mean. I personally don't feel like Christmas is one of them. I always felt that Christmas, besides the obvious religious or spiritual reasons that one may partake in, Christmas, for me, was always a time of getting together with family and friends and celebrating being family and friends and truly feeling blessed we had each other in life. Dinners and football and laughing and catching up and eating a slice of pumpkin pie out of their... uhm... have your traditions I have mine.
Ah well... not to sound like a Scrooge but I'll be leaving again in drizzly, craptastic weather to head out and buy more gifts. Another sucker come and gone and broker like a joker. I am playing into the corporate machine consumernomics where everything is driven by what we buy. Today's fads... tomorrow's dust collecters... here I come.
Remember it's not about the gifts as it is the person giving them and the act of kindness behind it... whatever the gift may be.
Later gator...
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