Funny you should talk about this--this year for the first time in, well, EVER, I felt a real urge to buy some blinky lights and string them around my living room. I didn't mostly because I wasn't sure where to buy any so close to the day, and I have a dearth of electrical outlets. But I was telling myself that twinkling lights are just twinkling lights and I enjoy those and so why not have them?
I might still buy some next week.
This year I also starting saying “Merry Christmas” to a lot of people because I am now at the point where I think, 'why the hell not'?
I'm told the Japanese celebrate Xmas as some sort of Annual Gift Day, which for them is completely divorced from Christianity, which they know nothing of at all anyhow. So they get all the fun & consumerism of it and none of the guilt, supposedly.
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Date: Mon, Dec. 25th, 2006 03:00 am (UTC)I might still buy some next week.
This year I also starting saying “Merry Christmas” to a lot of people because I am now at the point where I think, 'why the hell not'?
I'm told the Japanese celebrate Xmas as some sort of Annual Gift Day, which for them is completely divorced from Christianity, which they know nothing of at all anyhow. So they get all the fun & consumerism of it and none of the guilt, supposedly.