modelthroughit1

 Today I decided to read the newspaper. like actually read something other than the captions under the pictures and the first few lines of every article. and i decided that, to really understand the whole story, you seem to only need to read the captions under the pictures and the first few lines of every article. Today's newspaper was depressing. a lot of people are dead out there. more than usual. and you know why? its mostly because of earthquakes. Peru is the obvious one, but all those rescue workers in that mine died too. and i just can't help thinking of all the families that have lost someone. AND there's the whole suicide/truck bomb thing in Iraq and other parts of the middle east. ya know they seem to say that everytime there's violence in the middle east, it means were winning. Then when there's no violence for an extended period of time, were still winning. and even with everything that you read in the newpaper you have to think that somewhere out there other people are dying for other reasons. I'd love to see a story about someone like, "Sally Johnson 45 year old soccer mom, still going strong." Or just more stories about amazing people. i was watching some show during a commercial break about a guy in Virginia or somewhere who has spent his entire life trying to save the mountains from being squashed for development. that guy was awesome. and the story made me happy. But my uncle works for a TV station in canada and he and I were talking about this. Its pretty obvious that these stories just don't make news, and for the news companies to make money they need something that people will read. SO it all comes down to money. Why do we even have money? lets just go back to the barter system. that would work better. and if someones unhappy, we could just give them a goat. thats something ancient people used to do. but like the people in mythology class at nerd camp, i guess i have to admit that there are not enough goats in this world to make everyone happy. you know what makes me happy? coffee. I LOVE COFFEE.

I don't really get this live journal thing.

if someone could kind of explain it to me, that would be nice. if anyone actually reads this.

thanks. haha
:D 

Not.

I love christmas, minus the commercialism, and the insane shopping, and eating, and stupid traditions, and force-fed religion. In other words, i like snow. and thats true. but christmas is no guarantee of snow, despite what the songs might suggest. I guess it depends on where you live.

One reason i hate christmas is the shock i get every year when i am slammed over by the tidal wave of materialism. I'd be perfectly happy with some cookies and a card, yet society demands giftcards, clothing, ipods, cars, jewelry, even cash. And what is the point? To give some crap to someone who doesn't need it, won't like it, and probably won't give you much in return? I feel ripped off. Not only do i feel ripped off, but what about the people who don't even have food? or water? Best story I ever saw was about a six year old who sold his christmas presents to donate to the tsunami relief. He made somewhere around 800 dollars. Why on earth does a six year old need 800 dollars worth of presents? he probably has a roomful of perfectly good toys.

But the biggest reason why I hate Christmas is the hypocrisy. People with their insistence upon tradition. I'm sorry, but sally single-mom is probably not standing in the kitchen cooking up a big turkey and making cookies to set out for santa. She's probably working overtime to buy presents for her kids. It's a perfectly honorable thing for her to do, and I bet the kids would appreciate being able to get slightly nicer gifts this year. But how is sally feeling about herself? Probably not too good. She probably feels bad that she can't provide the perfect Christmas experience for her kids, and will end up in a guilt/stress fest while the kids sit down to frozen turkey dinners. Sally doesn't deserve that. Sally deserves the satisfaction that she can provide for the family on her own. She deserves to enjoy her frozen dinner. She deserves to celebrate christmas in front of the fake tree, and bask in the adoration that her children will give upon receiving what they wanted for christmas.

more reasons i despise christmas-

Lying to kids about santa. (It gets their dreams up, and when they don't get what they want, they feel like they did something wrong, and santa is punishing them. Then when they find out the truth, they are first crushed and then realize that their parents are cheap and didn't want to buy them that pony.)

Lights (I actually i love the lights. i just hate that they go up during thanksgiving)

Christmas music on the radio (like lights it starts too early. And plays on too many channels)

 

The end.

except, the truth is, christmas time is my favorite time of year. It's just rather flawed.