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When celebrating Christmas most
people think of it as a joyous occasion where people gather to give each other
gifts. To me it is becoming less and less joyous as the years go on. This is
mostly due to me realizing things as I got older. I saw more and more of people
taking rather than giving. When I was small I remember Christmas at my
grandmothers with all sorts of distant relatives, but I was always my
grandparents only grandchild and although I received many gifts, they were
never expensive and I didn't expect them to be. My grandfather spent time to
make me things and I still treasure those gifts to this day. Now it is all
about which grandchild they spent the most amount of money on and who they
favored the most. I am at a point where all I see is my grandparents suffering
to please all of their kids’ kids. For all of the children it is a joyous occasion
because they get all of these gifts and for the parents it is a contest and if
some kid got a gift more expensive than their child’s all manners of hell is
unleashed. Yet everyone still behaves as if everyone should be happy. Last week
when I went to my grandparents for Thanksgiving my grandmother asked for all of
our Christmas lists. Being who I am I asked for a Delorean, a flux capacitor,
and some plutonium. Obviously I am a back to the future fan and I was joking,
but my cousins gifts amazed me more.
I saw
my cousins asking for $60 video games and dolls that cost $100 or more. I could
not believe that they would ask for such things especially when there is
roughly 12 grand kids. There is no way that my grandparents should be expected
to pay so much for each child. Yet this is going to happen just like every
year. They do this to make not only the kids, but the parents happy as well. All
of this stress is put upon two individuals who should have retired years ago,
but because of their children’s greed and inability to take care of themselves,
are forced to keep working. I am at a point where I am going to call it out and
get branded the black sheep of the family because no one wants to bring it up. I
am not going to say that my grandparents shouldn't spend their money how they
please, but I will call out my aunts and uncles who deliberately ask for it
when they don’t need it. These past few years Christmas has been like torture
to me seeing my grandparents’ life sucked out of them and it fills me with
rage. So much for joy being associated with Christmas. As long as everyone
keeps acting like everything is joyful and fine, my grandparents will continue
to be run into the ground.
-Codie Rome 493
This post kind of makes me sad. I completely agree with the fact that the message of the holidays these days is wrong. I think children are taught that presents are the most important thing in the world, when really it's the thought that counts. The holidays are supposed to be a time of giving, sharing, and family, not greed, and competition. We used to put a spending limit on our gifts, and if something like this were happening in my family I would feel the same way you do. I hope you get the opportunity to make a difference in your family, so that you may at least enjoy the holidays with them again.
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