Christmas shopping. A full contact sport which should come with a health warning.
Dave had been given a simple task. "Buy your family some presents, you know them better than I do." He was going it alone. A monday morning and the shops were still packed to breaking point. Heaven help those people brave enough to shop on a Saturday. He didn't have a clue what to buy, lost and frightened in a hurricane of people. 'Argh'.
Suddenly a familar song began to play for the 100th time, but this time it hit Dave right in the face. "Feed the world. Let them know it's Christmas time..."
Where did it all go wrong?
Christmas, the season of good will. Joy. Happiness. At what point did such a wonderfully beautiful dream become so fuelled by greed? It seems Christmas has become nothing more than Presents and Pretty things that Sparkle.
Is that all there is in life to produce good will? Joy? Happiness? Wouldn't it be nice if the company of our friends and family could bring us joy without the need for humourous underwear, fancy socks, rubber chickens and solar powered tourches all wrapped up with a pretty pink bow. Wouldn't it be nice if all the multiple billions of pounds spent on presents, alot of which end up unused, unwanted and bined, could buy a few loafs of bread for some starving children instead?
The song finished. The day dream passed. The real world flooded back. 'Right, Alan, what would Alan want... ooh that looks shiney...'
2 comments:
Not that i dont completely agree with you D, but you are sounding a little like a Daily mail reader there mate. You're seeing the very worst of it at the shops. Christmas is a big party definately and is celebrated as such, but lets face it, its not only at Christmas time when people are hungry or thirsty. Did you know that in 2002 the west spent approx $4.8bn on mineral water do you know how much spending would be needed to see that the entire population of the world would be able to have safe clean drinking water? under 2bn. For less than half of what the rich countries spend on 'mineral' water we could give clean fresh water for the entire planet. Makes you wonder bout our priorities huh?
By the way i want an Xbox 360 for Christmas ok? Looking to you bigman.
Humanity sucks.
Your surprisingly close to what I've actually got you for Christmas, as in I did spend around 3.60.
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