The Holiday Blues

December 11, 2006.

It's around this time that most people are out spending exorbitant amounts of money on gifts for people they don't really know, whether it be that quiet guy you feel obliged to give some candy to because you're getting it for everyone else in your homeroom, a friend you used to be best friends with but haven't really talked to or hung out with for months (a card will do for them) or perhaps your great aunt Bertha twice removed (you know, the one with the beard who likes to pinch your cheek? maybe a razor would be good...).

Myself? I'm sitting at home trying to come up with a list of things that don't cost $300 that I want for Commercialization Day (I.E. Dec. 25th) so that my own family can run out and buy them to wrap in silly little paper and feel good about themselves because they got me the "perfect" gift (nevermind that it was on clearance and I'll probably never even NEED a comb organizer) and at the same time I'm thinking to myself that i need to run to the bank so I can do my own little mindless frenzy of buying useless items that people can pretend to like receiving while wondering to themselves whether or not they can return them. And amidst all this holiday ruckus, it occurs to me just how blind our society has become; this holiday wasn't meant to be part of the economical cult side of our society, it was supposed to be a time for us to be with our families and friends, to grow closer to them and to retie the knots in our relationships that have come loose over the past 365 days. This is a time when we should be giving eachother ourselves, not little objects of arbitrary value.

But, just like the PS3s on release day, this little moment of revelation disappears between numbers 11 and 12 on my holiday wish list, leaving my mind as fleetingly as it had entered it. My only hope is that perhaps by this short moment of revelation related (by the wonders of the electronic age) to you, the reader, you will be able to get something out of the misery that is the holiday season. Perhaps some greater meaning or message I missed, or maybe you will just pass on bits and pieces of my speculations and claim them as your own ideas.

In any case, Happy Holidays everyone, and have a wonderful (even if commercialized) rest of the year.

--Sangheilioz 21:50, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

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