Saturday, December 24, 2005
christmas
I want to have a meaningful Christmas. What is Christmas? It's evolved - devolved into a giant moneymaking scheme for a bunch of hedonistic people in a consumeristic world. What is Christmas? A time to shop? To ask for... things? Things that you want? An excuse to acquire junk?
Christmas... oh dear bob, what has happened to Christmas? What has happened to Your birthday? Shouldn't Christmas be a time of powerful emotions rather than expected presents? Shouldn't presents just be manifestations of love? I'm finally beginning to understand the line, "the essence of gift giving is the GIVER not the gift." You buy presents because you love the people you buy them for - to show them they're appreciated, to make them happy. Gifts are just love in material form - past the price tags, the brands, the usefulness, the prettiness, if you scratch all that away, all that should remain is... love (at the risk of sounding like MME).
This year, I want to be able to show everyone I love how much I love them at Christmas. Expensive presents? Is my love to be measured in money? Do my feelings have a price tag? Certainly not. Or if they did, then no gift I could buy would be worthy of any of you. You mean much more to me than any trifle. Strip away the ribbons, the wrappings, the paper, the boxes, the plastic. Strip away the thread and cloth and wax and wood and what have you. Strip it away and remember that I love you.
the poet ♥
3:16 AM
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