Bah hum bug. Yes I am back with my second post and I must say I need to start posting more , but in total fairness I have been missing in action for a bit because let’s be honest, Christmas to me is super stressful. Like someone please explain to me why on Earth we put so much pressure in society to try and get the people we love something for Christmas and if you own a home or business or multiple properties, property taxes are also due and it just leaves me with nothing. I feel a truly great holiday should be cheap, low stress and actually enjoyable. Worse still if you work a job that isn’t even off for Christmas or Christmas Eve (those beautiful souls that work at gas stations come to mind) all in all and who knows maybe my opinion is not popular I get it , but this is my blog, but I just struggle to even enjoy the holidays. My wife’s side of the family isn’t too close to her and sadly with the exception of my brother and uncle, i barely can enjoy holiday cheers. Like if i could pick one holiday that seriously needs reforming on how it should be celebrated it would be Christmas. I get it , Christmas may very well be your favorite holiday and yada yada , but I just don’t understand why Christmas just isn’t so enjoyable anymore compared to when I was a kid. I remember missing for instance Santa Claus and getting real excited for his arrival each year despite the fact that come to find out it I just have loving but imperfect parents that were making the magic of Christmas happen. In any case I am grateful to being spending my first Christmas with my newly wed wife , but I can tell she is just stressed herself from her own family not having little to do with her so we are just embracing each other.
I guess for me in the end, I just want Christmas to be great again. It used to be one of my favorite holidays as a kid…and yet it feels so void and a shell of what it used to be. I miss having dirty Santa for instance at my Uncle Larry’s each Christmas and eating holiday ham and cheese and just having a merry time with my family because I have so little left . In fact Christmas isn’t even truly merry for most people, just feels like a bunch of fake smiles and it really is the most miserable time of the year. Of course this is just one mere Alabama man’s opinion, but I feel Christmas is on the decline for being people’s favorite holidays because people have so little to even work with theses days.
I love Jesus Christ but I would be a liar if I said I enjoyed his birthday… not because of anything he did, in fact he brought us salvation from sin when we did not even remotely deserve it it, but because of corporate America pressuring us to buying nonsense we don’t need nor can afford without bordering homelessness. So I guess when ranting about stuff in this post, I just want people to be easy to everyone in December. Not everyone is merry during Christmas and they all have good reasons .
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