i made a personal goal to make this holiday season the best it could possibly be. usually around this time i'm troubled by my own personal issues but this year a lot is going on around me with the people i care about. so, with the holidays being about family and the gift of giving and good will towards men, and everything else, i made a personal decision to put forth the effort to be as good of a person as i can be to those around me this holiday season. but, so many things trouble me about the holidays.
for those who have known me for a length of time, they know how frustrated i am with the commercialization of christmas, specifically how much longer the christmas season gets each year. i wait til thanksgiving to even think about starting to celebrate christmas, and that's a personal choice. if you chose to do something different, then fine. but all you're doing is buying into the commercialization of what used to be one of the most ethical holidays of the year. need proof of this? look no further than "black friday"
now, if you remember, 2 years back, 3 people died on black friday. a salesmen was trampled at wal-mart, and two men shot each other in a toys-r-us. fucking awful. disgusting. where is the holiday spirit in any of this? what gift and what reaction upon it being open, is worth taking the life of someone? it's selfish and disgusting.
so i was happy looking over the news last year and seeing no such incidents of major violence. but this year, in buffalo, ny, the place i call home, this disgusting behavior reared it's ugly head again. three times, all at target.
the one that attracted all the major news headlines is a store that is but five minutes from my house, and the employer of a girl i really care about. she was there, saw it happen, the whole nine yards; hell, there's even footage of it. so the doors open, a guy in a stupid yellow rain coat sprints in. a bunch of others start to run in, a guy trips and falls and starts to get trampled. instead of people stopping to help him out, they barge their way past him and cheer on their way to their beloved sales. the reactions are truly disgusting, these people did not care one bit how they were treating this guy. the guy survived and is okay, but he has said in interviews that he was fearing for his life. what the hell? what is so "christmas" about that?
another target, in the southtowns, had a registered sex offender flashing customers who bought the last of the televisions he was trying to get his hands on. are you serious? that same store, there were reports of a guy having four extras of these televisions and trying to sell them for $40 more than the list price. again, where the fuck is the christmas spirit? there is no good will towards men here, this is pure selfishness.
and then finally, at the niagra falls target, a woman had a seizure. yep, a seizure. and instead of customers helping her, EMT's reported that customers were pushing her out of the way and grabbing items around her.
people need to get the fuck over themselves, over their selfish desires, and realize there's more to life than their own bullshit agenda. good will toward men. where is it? please, show me where it is.
everyone needs to take some time to reflect this holiday season and realize what is truly important to them. and i gurantee you what's truly important in life is NOT a good deal on a television set at the expense of the health of others. these people have families too. please, let's get ahold of ourselves and figure out what christmas is really about again.
thanks.
currently listening: vince guaraldio trio -- a charlie brown christmas
and of course "baby, it's cold outside" (if you read this, you know who you are, i'm still waiting to watch "elf" with you)
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