That's a myth. The suicide rate is fairly even throughout the year.Quote:
Originally Posted by soundwave
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That's a myth. The suicide rate is fairly even throughout the year.Quote:
Originally Posted by soundwave
actually no, I'd say for the people who dislike the holiday, it is the capitalism that sucks, that and emotionally distraught family members.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
ANYWAY. For a while me and my sisters did not like christmas. It seems like it is the time of year that the insecurities of family members seem to rear their ugly head. It has gotten so bad that my dad refuses to parcipitate in the gift giving part.
Insecurity 1: We live in a cluttered house (which oddly means that mother is a failure). This means that me and my sisters get to spend the day before christmas cleaning. This wouldn't be so bad if everyone but me wasn't such a moody douche.
Insecurity 2: That maybe we don't love our mother (bad gifts prove this so). This is mainly a problem for my dad. He never seems to get my mother anything nice enough. If he listens to her and gets her something she wants, she gets upset because it is too practical and "he got it just so she can do more work" or "he got it really for himself." And if he gets her something frivolous like jeweler he either does not get her something nice enough, or he gets it from Walmart and she is upset that it was from walmart and not a named brand jewelery store. He's gotten his feelings hurt so many times because of this, he refuses to buy anyone gifts ever again. I do not blame him.
Insecurity 3: We do not think our parents love us (by not getting us enough or exactly what we wanted). This was more a problem when we were younger. It was often a miscommunication, like one year some aunt gave me a girl toy, which bothered me, and for some reason they thought I was upset because I got only transformers (wtf, who gets upset about that?) and went and got me more stuff. I think maybe they got my gifts on sale or on the cheep, and felt guilty or something. I don't know why or how they thought a 8 year old boy would know such a thing and it would bother him.
Insecurity 4: Our family isn't perfect. This is mainly a problem for my sisters. I don't care about such things. But the first three things really bother my two sisters and they spend most of the holiday bitching about them.
And there are other things that suck. Like a year or two ago my Dad got cancer and we had to wait on the results to come back mid December.
Oddly I never really let that stuff bother me (well, except for the cancer thing). I'm happy to be with my family instead of working and I'm happy that I get anything.
Without Christmas I'd never see a lot of my family, so I dig it.
I would rather have a second halloween. Maybe even a third since christmas is a much bigger holiday, feels like a fair trade.
I don't see my family for Halloween. I see my college friends.
I like Christmas. Christmas and my birthday are the only real holidays that count, imo, 'cause those are the only ones where I get presents.
It's also nice springing a cool suprise on a loved one and making them happy.
Imagine on your birthday your family grabs a present or two from under the tree and hands them to you saying, "happy birthday". Then because they have last minute shopping or planning to do, leave you to find something to do. I am hoping for a change this year.
Hay Josh, when I was 4 I punched the mall santa in the eye and blackened it. I don't like people picking me up to this day.
Of course, the idiot picked the jewish guy to pick up, so he had it coming.
I'm loving Christmas this year. For some reason it's just putting me in a great mood.