Hello!
This
post marks me beginning the second third of my blog posts for this school year,
and the last part of my blog posts for this calendar year. To go hand-in-hand
with the growing cold and the shorter days, I’m going to be talking about Christmas!
Recently
I was busy relaxing after stuffing my face of good ol’ homemade food with my
family for Thanksgiving. As usual, my mother invited me along on her
swashbuckling midnight adventuring during the ritual us Americans know as “Black
Friday.” Unfortunately for me, and fortunately for my mother, this involves me
holding her place in line with my hands full of the crap she wants to buy while
she fights other grown women to the death over that “must have” pair of shoes
that’s on sale. To make it even worse, this tomfoolery didn’t even start at midnight;
it started at nine o’clock on Thanksgiving night. Think of all of the unfortunate
retail workers who don’t get to spend their holiday with their families because
they’re being used and abused by the angry housewives of America.
Another
terrible occurrence that I see more and more often is the
post-Halloween-Xmas-Sales. Stores around the country tear down their Halloween
aisles and replace them with the green and red that we associate with Christmas
-at
the beginning of November. This is madness, my friends. Christmas is in
late December, I do not want to see lights and trees up by the first of
November.
To me,
it almost seems like the beginning of the end. My parents tell me of the days
when they “had to walk ten miles to get to the nearest grocery store!” Now,
however, with massive chain retail stores popping up on every corner of the
nation, Christmas seems to be less about the “holiday spirit” and more about
the money. Ask any child in the U.S.A. today what Christmas is all about, I guarantee
95% of them would tell you it’s about the presents. That’s terrible, when it
should be about friends and family. I challenge each and every one of you who
reads this to take a step back, and really ask yourself why you’re excited. Is
it because you get cool new stuff, or get out of school? If so, see if you can’t
have a better time by thinking more about your family and less about yourself.
Either way, happy holidays!
