Merry Christmas.
I have had an epiphany. The holidays aren't about giving. Christmas isn't about getting. It's nothing to do with Jesus (partly because it's almost certainly not His actual birthday and partly because no one seems to care, except the ones who have something to gain from it politically). Forget Kwanzaa, forget Chanuka, forget Christmas. Forget the new year. It's nothing more than a marker of the planet's revolution anyway.
We should not have these holidays at all. The best reason to have the season is the milk of human kindness.
Please, kids, hear me out. I'm not going to protest wishing someone a merry one holiday and ignoring another (moreover, does it matter?). I'm also not going to say we should secularize anything, diversity is, you know, a fact of life. I'm not going to say we should have a grassroots revolution and stop celebrating altogether. I like getting stuff.
Look, I don't know how to best say this, but do you remember the Muppet song where Kermit sings about how on Christmas there's no such thing as a stranger and there's love in everyone's heart? Well, why can't we have that every day?
It sounds exhausting, or a hassle, but it's not that hard to wish someone a nice day. It's not that hard to help the elderly lady next door shovel her driveway. It's not that hard to volunteer to feed the homeless. The only reason it could be hard is if you waste too much time working. After all, do we need cows with Bluetooth technology?
[link] Spend your time doing something that matters, be it theological debate (by that I do not mean childish shrieking) or simply performing acts of kindness.
You only think that would leave you with too little time for enjoying yourself, but if everyone did this we would have a better world and easier lives. If everyone thinks no one else would help make a better world, obviously it will hold true, but if you show people, don't you think they would follow your lead? It would only take one person to join you, and that person would encourage another person, who would help another... Wouldn't you feel great if, instead of leaving that alcoholic hobo to die in the gutter, you took him into your home and helped him to recover?
I don't know a thing about you, but I know I would like a world where people did this.
People together in peace and harmony is an hilarious image, partly because of such classic ideas as Megaman fighting for everlasting peace, but also partly because you couldn't help but laugh if you lived in a world like that.
There would be no more need to send your family off to war, or to go yourself, because there couldn't be any wars. Would you firebomb someone you love if it were not necessary? No. We would not have to worry about war or anything if we all showed love and gave reason for reciprocation to the multitudes.
We'd all be happy. People simply need to learn to control their emotions. I myself am guilty of this, but when everyone is in love and flowers and so forth, you won't need to be mad anyway.
Don't say that it would be financially illogical to give money to the poor! If you paid so much taxes that you ended up poor, then you'd get the money to continue living. If you can afford a yacht, then boy, you deserve to be poor or starving, but you wouldn't be if you were more charitable.
I realize there are many philanthropic organizations and people out there, but the people who could stand to give a little more should. I realize you shouldn't give your lifesavings, at least not now that you have reason to fear poverty, but someday, when the lower classe does not exist, indeed when class barriers are unnoticable at best, you will be able to do so without fear.
I just realized how incredibly Communist this sounds. Well, what of it? The only reason it has historically failed is because rulers end up coming who do not support equality nearly as much as they should to deserve their position.
I don't know who you are, but I bet you want a world where you don't have to do scads of work while others reap benefits, and I'm sure you don't want to live in a world where you're powerless to help the poor. Don't say it's their fault for being druggies, or whatever moronic excuse you have. Not all poor people are poor of their own accord, and indeed people who deserve their lot in life only deserve it because the circumstances of their lives led to this behavior. Whatever happened to helping people to improve?
It just needs to start with something small. Smile and tell someone you hate that they're good. It will grow, they will feel better, you will feel like a nicer person. Devote your life not to your family but to the world. I'm not saying to ignore your family, indeed, spending most of your time with them you should love them most, but do not let your gaze fall from the joy of everyone. Never, ever let the milk of human kindness drain from your heart.
People will love, with no reason to fear, and it will always be Christmastime here.
Hug a Gnome today.
EDIT: Please pay no heed to what I say here. I wrote it when I was kinda dazed and confused. It's more of a wish for what would be awesome. So, yeah. Good day!
Query (second, apparently)
