I have to say, the xmas trees and the decorations in the stores and on my neighbours’ houses mean nothing to me this year. My eyes glaze over the Christmas sales and even the obnoxious xmas music of ‘Deck-the-bloody-halls’ goes through one ear and out other. It’s only when someone explicitly mentions xmas-related subjects i.e. wishing me a merry xmas, asking me about me about my shopping, etc that I then go ‘Oh that’s right, it’s Christmas’.
And don’t worry, I haven’t been infested by ‘the Grinch’ Syndrome; I’m all for Christmas cheer but to me, this year didn’t have that bang to it the Christmas holidays normally bring into our lives. When Christmas comes along, I’m normally suppose to get excited because it presents yet another opportunity to demand more books, DVDs and other miscellaneous items (I want long socks and brightly coloured stockings this year) off my parents; things I can’t normally get without being reprimanded of my wasteful, Caucasian-influenced spending habits because no actual Asian spends like I do.
Maybe it’s the whole US subprime market crisis thing that has caused my inner Asian to explode out of its shell and induce never before seen stingy spending habits and immense worry for the financial conditions of my parents and thus make me care a great deal less about Christmas, especially the more materialistic side of it.
Or maybe it’s because I’m not religious and I really don’t care that the 25th of Dec welcomed our saviour, Jesus Christ into our mundane lives (or as a friend’s brother-in-law pointed out, the 25th of Dec welcomed the greatest conman in existence into our mundane lives).
And the hyped-up ‘chance to spend time with your family’ just irritates me slightly because if you have to wait for this one day of the year to spend time with your family, clearly they meant very little to you in the first place (unless there are long distances between your loved ones and in that case, please make use of this time).
Is anybody else feeling like this or is it just me?
“as a friend’s brother-in-law pointed out, the 25th of Dec welcomed the greatest conman in existence into our mundane lives”
Ass. Tolerance works both ways; Christians who run around persecuting the gays and the non-converted are idiots, but so are people who think it’s hilarious to demean and belittle people whose belief system runs nowhere close to the extreme.
I asked for a new DS this year because I learnt the hard way about how the Stacker machine works. T_T