i feel our nation as a whole took a step in a right direction looking back on this christmas season. this is a step in a direction i never thought it would head back down so all in all i'm very happy with the way the holiday season has handled itself this year.
over the past few years christmas has entirely lost touch with what it has always supposed to stand for. peace and good will towards men have slowly gone out the window in my conscious life time and this is truly a sad sad thing. i've been growing upset with it and my holiday "cheer" has decreased steadily each year. last year was the worst. 3 people dead on black friday. wow. wheres the good will towards men? you want a toy or a sale that fucking bad that you are going to strip someone of their life to get it. a man was trampled by shoppers trying to get into a wal-mart to get the deal and two people shot each other at toys r us. wow. this was on top of my growing disgust towards the ever-lengthening christmas season. christmas music was on well before thanksgiving, and the grinch and rudolph both aired on television well before the thanksgiving holiday.
now come on. thanksgiving is a very important holiday. to me, it is the most important moral holiday all together. giving thanks for what you have in your life regardless of who's better off. it's about being happy and not worrying about material goods. and this country just said "nope. christmas."
this year, things were better though. i was happy to see, and very surprised, that nobody died on black friday this year. i was willing to bet the number would be between 2-4 people. and what more? no christmas specials prior to thanksgiving. and, like every year i emailed the radio station who's the "official home for the holidays" and i received a response from the director of programming, which you can read a few posts down.
christmas took a turn away from the commercially violent this year and was able to stand up for it's bullshit. i met some very nice people at work who were all about the season, i shared a lot of good times with family members. i felt the way you should feel on christmas. unfortunately the week of christmas i had an issue with a friend and on christmas day i came down with a terrible illness i am still recovering from. these two things aside, i am happy with the way this country and this area handled themselves the past month and a half and i hope they continue to take the right steps next year.
happy new year everyone.
jc.
currently listening to:
noah the whale -- first days of spring
lots and lots and lots of kevin devine with some splashes of country
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