You know, I really did not want to talk about this, and that is exactly why I wrote about it.
The Holidays, (trying to be inclusive and educational here, I didn't wanted to call them "this or that") are a great and fun time to expend it with family, create new memories, eat really good food and share special moments with loved ones. Although this traditions had existed for centuries, positively even before the birth of you know who, and has different names under different religions.
There is one of the practices which I personally dislike, the tradition of gift giving, gift giving has been happening long before Modern Christmas was set as a day to remember Christ's birth. Which no one actually knows when he was born, but possibly on September? While Modern Christmas became a tradition in the 4th century, gift-giving during holidays is of Roman origin. It was part of a celebration offered to the Roman god Saturn who was perceived to be the god of agriculture who provided vegetation and fruitfulness all year round to his worshipers.
The celebration lasted for seven days through the 17th to the 23rd of December. The gift giving ceremonies were seen as a way of achieving fortune for the next year. Romans initially gave simple gifts like candles, cheap wines, fruits, and nuts. Gurlllll! Now days we be giving each other’s IPads, Televisions, Toys, Computers, Cellphones etc.
You see I don’t like giving gifts, not matter for what meaning or for what purposes, giving gift is a tradition I despite. This tradition is believe that has existed even before the Pagan festivities of Saturnalia the holidays as I like to call them are a capitalistic nightmare (I am guilty), and in my opinion a very contradictory to beliefs of, love, kindness and peace.
You see in modern economy, the system depends on exploiting someone or something in order to sell it to someone else. While we are in the western world, preaching the love for our lord (or whatever), giving gifts with the meaning of “Peace, Love & Joy”, in other parts of the world, possibly where that gift was made, people are suffering, people are working on sweatshops to make your “gifts” that gift you are giving has the blood, and sweat of the person who made it. I know ethically made gifts are expensive, so why not just eliminate the whole gift giving thing? Next year I am planning to give experiences, which consist of taking a person out to dinner (although important to recognize the food system is messy AF), take them to the movies, to explore, etc. I will update how my first Christmas without gift goes.
Listen, I am here to present the problem, the honest solution is love, which I already had blog about.
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