Getting Gifts

I always feel bad accepting gifts from people, I mean these people worked for this thing that they're giving me, and something tells me they'd much rather keep it. Also I think that getting presents is a lame way to replace a religious holiday. You're supposed to give the gift of love, but now people have money and love comes in the form of a flat screen TV.

Maybe I feel like this because growing up I never got a lot of gifts, I never went without, but it was just not a top priority in my family. I grew to understand that, but as a kid it doesn't matter when you go back to school and everyone has all these presents they got. I guess I kind of grew bitter towards Christmas, I grew to resent it, and now I get sick when people talk about getting things for Christmas. If I didn't get one thing for Christmas I would be perfectly content. You would naturally think I was lying, but that's because you like Christmas, you are one who thinks Christmas is getting gifts, and your opinion means nothing to me.

If I could skip over Christmas every year I probably would. Everything would be normal, December 24th would come and the next day it'd be December 26th. To those of you who say it's about family, I really don't agree with you either, because to me family represents the present givers. I want our nation to go through a huge reform where we ditch the superficial stuff and go back to chivalry. Is that so much to ask?