Jamie, ……… many people feel the same way so it isn’t just you. They feel this for different reasons, some have lost loved one to war, suicides, finacial, can’t be with family, don’t want to be around family and put on a false front of having to smile while they are dying on the inside.
It’s just another day, no different than any other. the Sun rise and falls. I used to be the first one to eat dinner and then go and sleep till eveyone had left.
I am no longer invited nor welcome at Christmas ay any family members home, and thats totally ok with me.
For me? Holidays in period are depressing me to. It’s all the same. Family coming to judge me or yell at me if I do something wrong. I rather be alone on the holidays than be with family really.
Holidays in general are ridiculous, but Christmas is mind bogglingly moronic. I don’t get it. I hate to be a Grinch or a Scrooge, but please. Jesus was not even born in the winter, archeologists have confirmed, so there goes the whole “Happy Birthday Jesus” B.S. So we are left with Santa and the media’s brainwashing us into going into debt. No thank you. I see all of these robots running around like idiots, buying made in China crap that nobody needs with money they don’t have all for a made up holiday to make the rich people richer. I’d rather work at a food bank or give homeless people groceries. I wish I had the energy to do something meaningful, but I’m so tired all of the time… I don’t want to do anything. My poor kids…
When we look back in history religions of all types have had some sort of way of picking the pockets of the mass’s, and also it was always a part of a societies economics.
Think of the acient faiths or the world, usually it encompassed the sacrifice of some animal or fancy pottery being broken or actual gold and jewels being delivered to a temple. Even today the Muslim faith requires a male Muslim to visit the Hage or whatever it’s called at least once during their life. So that means an endless stream of vists of the faithful to a particular location that in turn creates an economy un to its own. Anever ending stream going to Saudi Arabia.
The debt that families go thru at christmas debilitates that family’s ability to make good healthy financial choices thru out the year.
Thanks giving is the only holiday that hasn’t been commercialized, and even when I’m depressed, I can find some gratitude when I go to the fridge and there is food in it.
Epiphany: Thanks. You’re my idol, too. Your poetry is soul-stirring. I honestly don’t know what I am supposed to be celebrating, so how am I supposed to just “be happy” about it. I vow to begin a tradition of helping others instead of doing this shopping BS. Next year, I’m gonna help some vets or cancer kids or something…
Caucajun: The Jehovah Witnesses (and Mormons) come to my door a lot. I take their Watchtower and thank them for thinking of me. But, I’m not interested in ANY religions. In my opinion, churches are just like the firms trying to get our money at Christmastime, only they prey on us year-round and appeal to our insecurities, shame and guilt for all the “horrible” things we have done. I love what Jesus stood for, his words, his treatment of the downtrodden, his ideas about not mixing worship with profit. And you are right on. Commercialization has gobbled up the sweetness that Christmas used to inspire, the spirit of generosity and selflessness. Now it’s just a joke. Sorry, Jesus… We have all let you down.
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Jamie, ……… many people feel the same way so it isn’t just you. They feel this for different reasons, some have lost loved one to war, suicides, finacial, can’t be with family, don’t want to be around family and put on a false front of having to smile while they are dying on the inside.
It’s just another day, no different than any other. the Sun rise and falls. I used to be the first one to eat dinner and then go and sleep till eveyone had left.
I am no longer invited nor welcome at Christmas ay any family members home, and thats totally ok with me.
For me? Holidays in period are depressing me to. It’s all the same. Family coming to judge me or yell at me if I do something wrong. I rather be alone on the holidays than be with family really.
I hate this time of year, all the things that i dread are around this time.
Holidays in general are ridiculous, but Christmas is mind bogglingly moronic. I don’t get it. I hate to be a Grinch or a Scrooge, but please. Jesus was not even born in the winter, archeologists have confirmed, so there goes the whole “Happy Birthday Jesus” B.S. So we are left with Santa and the media’s brainwashing us into going into debt. No thank you. I see all of these robots running around like idiots, buying made in China crap that nobody needs with money they don’t have all for a made up holiday to make the rich people richer. I’d rather work at a food bank or give homeless people groceries. I wish I had the energy to do something meaningful, but I’m so tired all of the time… I don’t want to do anything. My poor kids…
hbmom: You’ve got to be my idol right now. Well said. Very well said.
Christmas just sucks. All those happy people telling you to just “be happy”. Ugh. It’s that easy.. Not.
Join the Jahova’s Witness’s ,…………. they don’t celebrate Christmas.
It’s just ridiculous what has happened to what started out as a tribute to the birth of The Christ as some believe.
A spiritual thing has been commercialized.
And the commercialization has actually become a huge part of the economics of many countries.
When we look back in history religions of all types have had some sort of way of picking the pockets of the mass’s, and also it was always a part of a societies economics.
Think of the acient faiths or the world, usually it encompassed the sacrifice of some animal or fancy pottery being broken or actual gold and jewels being delivered to a temple. Even today the Muslim faith requires a male Muslim to visit the Hage or whatever it’s called at least once during their life. So that means an endless stream of vists of the faithful to a particular location that in turn creates an economy un to its own. Anever ending stream going to Saudi Arabia.
The debt that families go thru at christmas debilitates that family’s ability to make good healthy financial choices thru out the year.
Thanks giving is the only holiday that hasn’t been commercialized, and even when I’m depressed, I can find some gratitude when I go to the fridge and there is food in it.
Epiphany: Thanks. You’re my idol, too. Your poetry is soul-stirring. I honestly don’t know what I am supposed to be celebrating, so how am I supposed to just “be happy” about it. I vow to begin a tradition of helping others instead of doing this shopping BS. Next year, I’m gonna help some vets or cancer kids or something…
Caucajun: The Jehovah Witnesses (and Mormons) come to my door a lot. I take their Watchtower and thank them for thinking of me. But, I’m not interested in ANY religions. In my opinion, churches are just like the firms trying to get our money at Christmastime, only they prey on us year-round and appeal to our insecurities, shame and guilt for all the “horrible” things we have done. I love what Jesus stood for, his words, his treatment of the downtrodden, his ideas about not mixing worship with profit. And you are right on. Commercialization has gobbled up the sweetness that Christmas used to inspire, the spirit of generosity and selflessness. Now it’s just a joke. Sorry, Jesus… We have all let you down.