Sunday, December 7, 2008

The Stepford Season

I know I've complained about the Christmas season before, but I can't help bringing it up again.

I was walking downtown on a chilly winter late afternoon and I saw all these Christmas lights and decorations and the streets were filled with blank-eyed people madly buying presents, their arms loaded down with plastic bags, and there was something so depressing about the scene, and its heavy overtones of expectations. We are expected to buy and to feel joy and I wish everything would be calmer and we could just enjoy spending time together without all the pressures of the season.

--Curly

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