Just a quick dabble about how I hate Christmas...
Just a quick note before my bitching starts. I originally posted this on Craigslist Rants and Raves section. I was actually emailed by some random dude who told me, "I love you for this letter!" WooHoo! Strangers love me! Anyway, on with the bitchfest!
I have been saying for years that I hate Christmas and no longer want to celebrate it. The only problem is that no one listens to me and they think I'm just being a follower. My older sister (who I look up to a lot) stopped celebrating Christmas shortly before me so everyone thinks that I am just trying to be like her. However, I have a deep passionate hate for this time of year and my own reasons for it.
Christmas is so commercialized and you don't even have to be Christian anymore to celebrate it. What does everybody keep forgetting? Christmas was supposed to be the day that we all celebrate Jesus' birthday which is actually in April. I don't believe in Jesus and I am definitely not Christian therefore celebrating it would be just stupid.
Do y'all watch tv around this time of year? It's filled with shows and commercials that teach our children to be greedy little fucks. It's all about how we need to convince the people around us to buy more shit that we don't need and probably won't use more than once. I'm not even going to start about how our children don't need to get sugared up.
My good friends (who used to respect my wishes by not buying me anything) have now come up with "Present Day" which is celebrated on the closest Friday to Christmas (that is what I remember anyway). At least this "holiday" is obvious and doesn't hide behind a facade of celebrating some dude who was supposedly "special". Again, I don't really want to participate in this exchanging of gifts. I fully support giving to charities instead or buying a homeless/not so fortunate person a hot meal and a night in a cheap hotel. Why not just give away some stuff to a non-profit organization instead? Yes, some volunteers might steal some things but at least your heart was in the right place.
My step mother bombards me with the age-old question, "What do you want for Christmas?" and after fighting her on it for months at a time I have now started replying with "Just give me some money so I can buy drugs!" No, I don't do drugs but at least she doesn't bug me about it anymore.
I don't like the idea of being "obligated" to give my friends something. I want to be able to show that I love and care for my friends and family without the use of material objects. I want to feel free to express said feelings to said people all year round and not just during one month. I want to be able to leave my house without having an anxiety attack from all the damn Christmas shoppers. I want to be able to sit on my porch without seeing my neighbors porch all decked up. Christmas shat upon my apartment complex. Is this all too much to ask? That's it. I'm buying my own private island and moving there.
Santa is the Devil (well, he would be if I actually believed in it)!
I have been saying for years that I hate Christmas and no longer want to celebrate it. The only problem is that no one listens to me and they think I'm just being a follower. My older sister (who I look up to a lot) stopped celebrating Christmas shortly before me so everyone thinks that I am just trying to be like her. However, I have a deep passionate hate for this time of year and my own reasons for it.
Christmas is so commercialized and you don't even have to be Christian anymore to celebrate it. What does everybody keep forgetting? Christmas was supposed to be the day that we all celebrate Jesus' birthday which is actually in April. I don't believe in Jesus and I am definitely not Christian therefore celebrating it would be just stupid.
Do y'all watch tv around this time of year? It's filled with shows and commercials that teach our children to be greedy little fucks. It's all about how we need to convince the people around us to buy more shit that we don't need and probably won't use more than once. I'm not even going to start about how our children don't need to get sugared up.
My good friends (who used to respect my wishes by not buying me anything) have now come up with "Present Day" which is celebrated on the closest Friday to Christmas (that is what I remember anyway). At least this "holiday" is obvious and doesn't hide behind a facade of celebrating some dude who was supposedly "special". Again, I don't really want to participate in this exchanging of gifts. I fully support giving to charities instead or buying a homeless/not so fortunate person a hot meal and a night in a cheap hotel. Why not just give away some stuff to a non-profit organization instead? Yes, some volunteers might steal some things but at least your heart was in the right place.
My step mother bombards me with the age-old question, "What do you want for Christmas?" and after fighting her on it for months at a time I have now started replying with "Just give me some money so I can buy drugs!" No, I don't do drugs but at least she doesn't bug me about it anymore.
I don't like the idea of being "obligated" to give my friends something. I want to be able to show that I love and care for my friends and family without the use of material objects. I want to feel free to express said feelings to said people all year round and not just during one month. I want to be able to leave my house without having an anxiety attack from all the damn Christmas shoppers. I want to be able to sit on my porch without seeing my neighbors porch all decked up. Christmas shat upon my apartment complex. Is this all too much to ask? That's it. I'm buying my own private island and moving there.
Santa is the Devil (well, he would be if I actually believed in it)!