Remember when Christmas used to be fun? We were children and we did not have to worry about what to get our co-workers or aunt Mary. But, when we gage our national financial health by Black Friday and how well Wal-Mart does, times have changed. Everyone complains about the Christmas shopping madness, still we keep walking like consumer zombies to the malls. Who are we trying to please. That child of the past who still got excited about Christmas morning? Is this a yearly effort to relive childhood fantasies? Christmas at its heart is a religious holiday. Does Santa represent a more accessible God? Could we change this madness, most adults complain about the commercialization of Christmas and its loss of religious significance. So why do we keep doing what we say we don’t want to do?
The photo is of Nena, my wife, and her brother Gary.
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