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eric on Dec 23rd 2008 Random Life Stuff

Axial tilt is the reason for the season!

I’m not really into Christmas. It’s not because I don’t like giving or receiving gifts from friends. Heck no! I’m already planning next year’s Christmas CD. It’s not because of a crappy childhood – mine was great, especially Christmas. It wasn’t overly done and never too ridiculously tacky. I honestly have no bad memories of Christmas whatsoever.

I don’t really have a problem with the whole Jesus thing. I also don’t have a problem with people who want to say “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas.” Both parties are equally guilty of being self-righteous and annoying.

Could be the snow. I spent a good bit of the morning shoveling the driveway with what can only be described as a really good children’s shovel and a garden rake. The rake proved to be pretty useful, I’m glad we had it.

I’m not unhappy that it’s Christmas. I’m not against it or even against people who have “the Christmas spirit” (whatever that is). I don’t really have an opinion of Christmas music (well, musically, I do – the new stuff is crap and nobody plays the old stuff except over at Falalalala.com).

I guess I just don’t get it. Christmas, at the very least, is supposed to be a nice, happy, peaceful time. But mostly it seems to revolve around people being assholes. We drove to a mall three days before Christmas. We were honked at several times. People in Seattle are way too passive-aggressive to honk… except during the Yule Tide season.

It’s crazy. And I think that’s why I’m never all that hyped on Christmas. People turn into miserable, hateful animals all in the name of doing nice things for others.

Maybe if Christmas were about drowning puppies, I’d understand how the celebration would turn people into rabid lemurs. But it’s not. It’s about gift giving and happiness and family.

At least it is if you allow it to be. By entering into that world… the shopping center world… at Christmas, I willing chose to participate in the chaos and pure evil. My bad, dude.

But seriously… why do we do this to ourselves?

Why can’t Christmas just be about this…