Media Driving Sales Up?
It would appear that more and more, every day events and national holidays such as Halloween and Christmas, no longer centre on their actual origins; Halloween, from All Hallows Eve, which is the eve before the Day of the Dead and Christmas, of course, being the supposed birth of Christ.
It seems that these days/national holidays have instead been turned into an excuse to either demand expensive goods from friends and family or to go out and presumptively expect handfuls of sweet goods from the doors of poor and helpless elderly folk, or else they can expect to have their residence maliciously vandalised.
Christmas is portrayed as a time for family; a holiday you’re meant to spend time and love with people who bring meaning to your life. The sad fact of the matter is that no one can comprehend celebrating Christmas without having that cool new thing from Wal-Mart that’s £300 down in price and comes with no interest financing for 12 months.
Credit to Michael Aranda and Patrick Cirelli.
Two glasses of red wine while facing your Christmas post on this page, and this comes up to my mind – that you’d perhaps find kind of wierd? – I don’t know:
If God was to choose a living human to reincarnate, I bet that one of the two following choices would most likely be the one He’d take:
Either you who reminds people that Christmas is His son’s birthday, and not a marketing event.
Or me who – after the disappointing failure of the Cop15 summit – had wrote this wish on my Facebook status: “May Christmas spirit spread its grace on humans and nature, and spare our planet threats and harm” but received not a single comment on it.
Now forget our being in this “Goddish” competition, reading your Christmas comment made me feel (minus 1) less lonely than I thought I was – which is all in all a good thing that happened to me. Something like a late Christmas present that’s warm and very welcome, I’d say. So thanks.
Love.
Stad
I don’t find that weird at all, I’m glad you liked it, thanks for commenting and I hope you had a good Christmas! =]
Regards
Sam