This is the time of year that I do not look forward to. The holidays bring out the worst in everyone. Everyone gets grumpy, rude, and just plain outta hand. You go to the malls or the stores and everyone is out for themselves. They have no courtesy. All manners go out the window. I know it was a bad movie but that Arnold movie about him trying to get is son a certain toy is the truest thing on Earth. Everyone is fighting for the same thing with no care for anyone else.
Then you have the stores. Wow! They love this time of year. They make all kinds of deals for the Christmas shopper. The thing is that the deals are not really that much of a deal. Spend this amount and get this. When in all actuality the thing they are giving you is no where close worth the money you just spent But yet everyone falls for it. My wife and I fell for it. You know why we all fall for it? Because we want our kids to have a great Christmas every Christmas. We don't ever want our kids to have that memory of that one Christmas that Santa, Mom, or Dad didn't give them very much or anything for Christmas. That's one of the reasons that I don't like Christmas. Not that I don't want my kids to have a great Christmas, but I don't like the fact that Christmas has become so commercialized. The stores, toy companies, game makers, and who ever else would help with making a great Christmas make you feel like a bad parent if you don't buy from them.
Then there is the family level. There is all the stresses and worries that have been bothering you or your family all year that seem to just pop up around the holidays. It's guaranteed that there is always going to be some type of strife between someone somehow somewhere. It used to be everyone got together and enjoyed being together as a family and they enjoyed the holidays and not the gifts or drama that is going on. I just hope and pray every year that things will change in this world that everyone will stop worrying about who said or did what and start enjoying that the family is together and that everyone is in good health.
Then we come to the real reason that Christmas is Christmas. Jesus Christ was born. Everyone has seemed to have forgotten that. Without him we wouldn't be who, what, and where we are now. Christmas has been replaced with Xmas. When did it become ok to replace Christ with a X? How is that right? Have we got so lazy that we can't write Christ in front of mas? It amazes me that we have gotten that way.
The thing that just got added on to my list of gripes is Obama. I found out today that instead of having Christmas trees on or in the White House it is holiday trees. I understand that he is whatever religion or nationality he is but why is it that it took him four years to say "You know what? We are not doing Christmas trees we are doing holiday trees." Four years? For four years he has had Christmas trees now this year and for the next three or four, however many it will be, it'll be holiday trees. This just shows how stupid people are getting. Oh I don't want to offend anyone so I'm going to go with the politically correct version and make everyone happy. Well you know what? It doesn't always make everyone happy. There are people that like it one way and there are others that like it another. So of course there is always going to be someone upset. Like me! (Insert laughter). The man needs to hurry up and do his second four because I'm scared of what else he's going to change or do to make people happy that may make things worse. The thing I worry about somewhat is that he's going to make a change that the next President or any of the Presidents after him are going to be able to change. Oh we'll right? I'm just a lone voice in a loud crowd.
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