December 17, 2007
Silent Night, Holy Fuck
I can't wait for the holidays to be over.
I'm not trying to be a Scrooge or anything, I just get bored with the festivities and people pretending that they actually give a shit about each other for a few weeks, right before they turn back to cold greetings and non-reciprocated smiles. I get tired of the sudden religious fanaticism, the rabid consumerism, and the dog-eat-dog mall/market crowd clamoring for this or that. I grimace at the "resolutionists" who will be cramming the gym for the next month, idly walking a half-mile on the treadmill before leaving to congratulate their fitness efforts with a diet soda and a ranch dressing-choked salad. Of course they'll give up and tread back to being sedentary and eating terrible food, but in the meantime those of us who make a habit out of training will have to witness bosu ball dumbbell curls and all other sorts of gym idiocy in the meanwhile. The selfishness bugs me, the feeling that those who really need something essential won't get it while someone's fat hateful kids get spoiled annoys me, and the whole season is just more of a pain in the ass than it's worth.
I used to think that this feeling was just pent-up cynicism from the holiday not meaning as much to me now as it did when I was a kid, but that's definitely not it. As I get older, I just end up with apathy. I end up feeling like a concern troll when wondering why a kid gets a Wii while another family just wants a ham dinner and jackets.
Bleh.
Posted by Jake at December 17, 2007 10:47 AM
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