Holiday Rant

So I'm gonna sit here and rant about holidays specifically national ones eg halloween, christmas and all that malarchy. I shall start off with Halloween as it is upon us now. I shall state one sentence I believe I heard on an old channel 4 comedy called Reaper, 'Halloween is the commercialisation of evil'. Hell, demons and the devil etc are supposed to amit fear in to people but due to people all the 'cute' kids going round trick or treating with 'scary' costumes the fear is no longer there and hasn't been for decades. Also if you haven't seen Reaper before go check it out, it got cancelled after the 2nd series but is pretty good show. Also the whole trick or treat thing I grew up with the whole don't talk to strangers or don't take sweets off strangers etc.. notion drilled in to me. The once a year we openly let this happen so long as you dress up to do it? Really? Do we not see the hypocrisy  here. 

Then we come on the the next big one, christmas. Christmas the holiday that if you say anything bad about it or disagree with it. You are looked down upon, dubbed grinch, scrooge or just cheap because you disagree with buying presents purely because it's the end of the year. If you are christian or pagan and believe or follow one of the many reasons behind christmas (commercialism doesn't count) like the birth of christ or the winter solstice I have absolutely no problem at all with you celebrating this holiday at all. But I can guarantee the majority of the country, those who go putting up christmas decorations, buying presents and all that, you know the red and white Santa Claus christmas, these people (going on assumption here) don't follow christianity or paganism. It is a religious holiday either way, damn near everyone I know (to my knowledge) aren't religious. You could argue I save all year to afford these presents, or it brings the family together. I counter argue if you want to give people presents be it friends and family who is to stop you buying them throughout the year and doing it then. And if you want to bring the family together, go out and bring the family together, get to talking, make plans, make it happen. You shouldn't be essentially forced (I use that term lightly) to buy unnecessary gifts just because society says so. 

And last but not least be will get on to the worst offender of them all, Valentines Day. The day which is chosen for you by society to show your love to your partner. I say if you are in a relationship, in love etc... why should you be made to declare feelings on a specific day be it through actions or be it through presents. If you want to show them how you feel just go do it. Doesn't matter if it is on the 14th of February or the 23rd of August. This is commercialisation at it's worst. I am single right now, but if I happened to be in a relationship, I would completely boycott Valentines Day and do what everyone else tends to do on a different day when I felt like showing said person affection. I'm not going to have society tell me when I should show affection to people I like, just like I shouldn't have to put up with them telling me I have to buy things on certain days.

This rant was brought to you by some random wall post on Facebook. Also coffee.

Actually as I am here I shall also give an update of the beard of beardedness as it seems ages since I have done one and here you are.