The Holidays

I love the holidays. Great food, family, festivites, fun and good movies. I love the cold weather with a nice fire inside and a good book with some yummy tea.

On the holidays we get together, we celebrate each other and give thanks, we give gifts, we give to those who have less than we do.  We grow up, we learn to do this on certain days.

I don’t like the holidays. Everyone is rushing, everyone travels, everyone has elevated levels of aggravation. Everyone consumes. Buy, buy, buy. Consume, consume, consume. Then we throw all that trash away, all that paper, plastic, packaging. Just think of all the food that is wasted.

There are two main reasons why I don’t like the holidays. The first is because they are all centered around fairy tales, silly stories that we repeatedly tell each other. The second is because through celebrating on certain days, we give ourselves the permission to treat each other ourselves and the planet with such disrespect the rest of the days. I would much rather celebrate each other and give to each other all throughout the year. I find great frustration ‘dealing’ with these holidays with respect to raising my son. I do not want to continue the fairy tales and silly stories.

I love the holidays. I love the food, the festivities. My favorites thing about all the holidays is giving to people, giving gifts. The happiness, the smiles this brings to people. Its my favorite thing in the world, seeing people happy.

Happy Holidays!