Tuesday, December 27, 2005

�Merry� Christmas...

Alright, alright� Before I get stoned to death, I better post something.

A big thank you to you guys, for the rather overwhelming response to my pleas for tags. Haha~ ;) And so, it is the time of the year again� where everyone is supposed to be oh-so-jolly as they �immerse themselves in the festive spirit�. My foot, seriously...

Just out of curiosity, how many of you guys out there ACTUALLY feel extraordinarily jovial BECAUSE it�s Christmas? Seriously, I don�t know about you guys, but for me, I felt pretty darn lousy this Christmas... extraordinarily lousy.

I happened to be at Clarke Quay on Christmas Eve and Orchard on Christmas itself. Not wholly planned, I must emphasize. I just happened to be at the above-mentioned places. Had gatherings or meeting people that somehow ended up with me being there. And I must say the feeling kinda sux. Somehow, I dun feel happy or jovial or anything of that sort at all. But there�s just this nudging feeling of emptiness� like there�s a huge chunk of me that�s missing� so much so that I dun feel any Christmas spirit whatsoever.. and that really sucked. And no, I wasn�t alone. Though I feel very much so.

Someone asked me if anything happened to result in this sucky feeling, like something screwed up my Christmas or something... Frankly speaking, I think it�s more of because nothing happened, that resulted in me feeling the blues. It�s like, because it�s Christmas, you�ll be expecting to feel a little happier� and when you don�t feel it, everything just goes downhill from there.

To me, Christmas, Valentine�s and such are really way too commercialized. The only people I guess that�s truly happy are the bosses as they perched themselves behind their cash registers� thumbing the piles of money they�ve milked from the foolish people out there worshipping such festivities.

The way such festive occasions are marketed kinda resulted in what I call an �Emotional Multiplier.� People who are already pretty much happy with their lives are happier, and people who feel otherwise just feel suckier. That said, it�s obvious I belong to the latter. Have you seen a Christmas flyer that does not have smiling people??? I mean, take a look at the name, for Christ�s sake. MERRY Christmas. You are just SUPPOSED to be merry� somehow. But what if you don�t?

Maybe I should go back to attending City Harvest�s Christmas Celebrations in future.. Hmm�

Cre8tivesparks at 12/27/2005 04:19:00 PM

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