Xmas Joy
THIS year is gonna be different! (says Charlie Brown, as Lucy steadies the football).
Resolution is a good thing. You have to decide to not let the doh-doh heads splinch your holiday spirit. Circumstances should not determine your joy. Your Joy should very well stand on its own…. and even enhance your circumstances (for the better!)…. Happy Christmastime all!
It’s very easy for me to decide my feelings this time of year: I hate Xmas, and I have for several years. I am the Grinch of the family, and proud of it. Nothing sickens me more than the sickly-saccharin attiude people develop in order to pretend they’re such good people…OR the rabid vitriol towards every other person around in your own last-minute attempt to make the holiday “perfect”. All the electricity wasted in trying to outdo your neighbor with appalling displays of neon nightmare fodder that shine in windows all night long. And the complete lack of spirituality in the season….that’s what REALLY kills me.
Bleah. I can’t wait for January.
I’m into Christmas this year. I have to be. I’ve got two neices who are depending on me to get them their Nicki Minaj, Drake, and Diggy Simmons CDs! Of course I have no idea who these guys are and my neices will probably download them from Itunes before Chriistmas anyways. But I’m still into it.
Christmas elves are SO much ruder in California (and “radder”…nice skateboard moves there, dude-meister).
I couldn’t help but laugh out loud at the sk8er with the Santa hat, f-in’ hilarious!
Youch.
Different folks approach their spirituality differently, yet the overriding tenet during holiday celebration times ought to be….positivity. Reflecting and contributing to the positive energy of others in your own positive ways.
Its crazy how that skateboarder has such a bad attitude and yet wears a festive Santa hat. Nice commentary on many folks this time of year. They feel compelled to dress up for the holidays yet feel no connection to them, outside of resentment for being obligated to, you know, dress up.
Dawnie… I am truly saddened by your holiday feelings, but I understand your responses to Christmas. There is a lot to be cynical and pessimistic about. The commercial-ness and pretend-ness can make the season less than bright. I do try to keep the true meaning & spirit of Christmas close and remember the joy that is in THAT.
Denny… I don’t know who they are either.
Dada… skater boys… they’re not all bad, of course.
Jack… glad it made ya laugh…
stick… he’s an evil bad santa hat wearing evil elf dude.
Ah, Christmas. The day we celebrate the birth of Santa Claus by buying warehouseloads of unwanted knick-knacks from foreign countries that we can’t afford. It’s a meaningless agglomeration of holidays from other cultures, once co-opted clumsily by the church in spite of their own records and now co-opted by the vendors of cheap foreign-made schlock.
Still, it’s a nice day to enjoy an actual sit down sociable dinner with family and friends, if you can arrange it. You might even get some of them to put down the phones and talk. That’s what I always looked forward too.
…Except that now i’m about five thousand miles away. No homey happy santamas dinner for me!
What’s with all the negative waves, man? All the cynics disparaging the end of the year holiday revelry. What a downer!
JZ… where are you that you are 5,000 miles away?
DCS… the coming weeks’ Squid will get more cheerful… I promise! Hopefully, it will inspire joy!