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Let's talk about Christmas.
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Christmas
/ˈkrɪsməs/
noun
- 1.the annual Christian festival celebrating Christ's birth, held on 25 December in the Western Church
This is it's definition, in modern society it is considered a Christian Holiday that has been picked up and celebrated over hundred of generations, but what has the world made it mean to us?
Over the years (Particuarly in the colder parts of the world) Christmas is a time of:
- Warmth and light in the bitter chill of dark and cold winters.
- A time to share with the ones you love and
remember.
- Fun.
This points have been ingrained to our brains since our childhood through media and traditional practice; two sources named of the top of my head, Scrouge (and/or the Muppet's Christmas) and Dr Zeus, the Grinch, but there are many, many more.
Everybody's heard of the phrase "You don't know what you have till it's gone." To those people who have the audacity to phone your old dad up every year after planning a lovely dinner for you and the rest of your family saying you can't make it repeatedly. I understand sometimes circumstances are hard but for that wide of a family to neglect something so beautiful like remembering to take a day to spend with people you care about? then doing something as extreme as that man had to do may be appropriate.
Because we've all done it, we've called up places we can't go to because life was on the line. Made ourselves busy when we shouldn't, but I look at this an think "I wouldn't want to die alone either."
People rarely have the empathy to step into the shoes of another person, if anybody did this to me I would cry. It's only a dick move if you choose to ignore the sentiment behind the action, which was done out of love. Running away from situations like this one and 'leaving' is not an answer that helps anyone.
One could argue that it's no more than a holiday. That might be so, but so is Thanks Giving, Easter, Halloween... They're all just Holidays to brighten up the year. Okay, so in life you have to work to help society develop and evolve, but if you can't have fun, spend time with the people you love and
just be
live for one day of the year, what's the point? The old man might as well be in the coffin.
If people are truly offended by this advert then they need to have a reality check and assess their priorities in life, if they are happy with them fine. Something is only ever considered wrong if society decided upon it as collective.
I see a lonely old man wanting to live a little with his family before he dies. Good on him.[/fieldbox]