A very polite 'fuck off'

[selina_fox]

LJ doesn't seem to be popular anymore. I still read my friend's posts even though I don't have anything to say myself. In fact, I've taken my comments elsewhere because the anonymity is nicer and nobody understands me anyway

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[teefers]

Why don't people question WHY they celebrate such a vague, Hallmark-ridden event?If "why" was important to anyone these days, we wouldn't be celebrating Thanksgiving either. People are just looking for an excuse to party and spend money. And there's no better excuse than Christmas and the upcoming new year

[selina_fox]

I would rather give on a non-occasion and surprise someone when they least expect it, than to be expected to give something and have nothing to give and/or no will to give it.

I just look around during the lead-up to Christmas and the people I see are mostly stressed or unhappy or looking at each other with jealousy. The "giving trees" come out but the piles underneath them are puny in comparison to what people cram into their cars to take home. I can't help but wonder why some people do this to themselves and where this -need- to get into debt comes from, because every year on the news they talk about how much credit was stacked up by Christmas shoppers.

Anyway, like I said, I don't mind if you celebrate Christmas and think it's wonderful to see some of the ways that people do use it to strengthen relationships. It just doesn't mean anything to me and I resent being called a Grinch because of that, even though I have done nothing to dampen their own 'Christmas spirit' except to say I don't have one.

[teefers]

Haha, anyone who calls you a Grinch obviously doesn't know you very well. Hell, I don't know you very well, but I do know that you're more generous in your daily life than most people are during the holidays. When you already give so much of yourself every day, Christmas becomes just another day of the year :3

[aerozaine]

Amen!

...pun intended.

And yes. I feel exactly the same way you do. I could enjoy Christmas if it weren't so.. expected? There's a lot of expectations and backwards representations. It's about family and friends, and celebrating life.. not filling the pockets of a billion corporations and making sure your friends 'remember' you by getting you something. I'm so sick of seeing decorations and hearing music A WHOLE MONTH before the day.

Especially since I consider myself more pagan than christian. Christians can be such hypocrites. We're not allowed to express our religions, and god forbid we talk about them, but they're 'allowed' to not only express their religion but make every public place a freak show of it. -.-

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[selina_fox]

I remember my friends all year around. ^_^

And tonight! <3