DO THEY KNOW ITS CHRISTMAS? Its alright, its only gift-giving. Do we have to overthink or intellectualize handing over a gift to a friend, loved one or even a random acquaintance? To give love is to receive love 7 times. Even long-ago tribal homeys and visiting travelers exchanged sweet little things to proclaim their new friendship. Commercialization of holidays? Consumerism of humanity? Do we really believe that therell be nothing but a “handcrafted, politically-correct and environmentally-sweet” bauble and necessity sold in our neighborhood store one day someday? Do we sincerely believe that we will never consume beyond sea salt and backyard leeks? “Commerce” and consumption are all personal. As in giving... Hence “giving” or buying should not be sweepingly categorized as objects of anothers sociopolitical (or even ultra-religious) point of view. We are all wading and working around the commercial queue before us, we are all consuming on the basis of what we individually need as long as we can afford them or we dont steal them. But on Christmas Day (or any holiday), we give and we share. That wrapped blessing is not $100 or $10, that is a heart in a physical body of a scarf or a baby doll. The receiver may already have 101 copies of “Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack LP but his 102nd copy came from you, so that is VERY special. As in the Little Prince to the Rose, “You are my rose—the rose in a hundred other roses...” The Bee Gees LP from the hundred other Bee Gees LPs—the one that we keep in a glass globe of our heart. So please dont see the negative shadow of a human ritual o tradition of love and giving... The few dollars that we spend for three Higland Gaelics or Buds, or the gasoline that we let our cars guzzle in to drive to the next bend to score a condom, the little materials that help us create our personalized keepsake to a friend—are not owned by some Enlightened Gnome that vibe with our girth, somehow the One Percent Demigods have some stocks somewhere. So sacrifice a few puffs of the magic herb for a month, and buy 7 sets of baby diapers and wrap `m with colorful Christmas crepes at Dollar Tree. Stop commodifying everything! Simple gestures of giving arent an AC Morgan Chase pitch, it is a human nature of coolness and awesomeness. So be cool and awesome, buy me a gift! LOL!
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 17:26:34 +0000
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