Another Holiday Season Upon Us

Wow, I just realized that it's been like 2 weeks since I last posted here. Sad really, given that I've actually had time to say something, and, more importantly, things to actually say. My birthday went off well, nice and relaxing with April, and the trip to NC for the movie premier with Katie was fun also. I like getting dressed up in a tuxedo, they look good on me.

Having just sat through two of my three classes I realized, looking at my syllabi, that the year is almost over, and another holiday season is upon us (see, you didn't think that I was going to work the title in here did ya?)

Thankfully I'm not working retail this year and hence will not have to put up with some of the more psychotic patrons of the shopping world. But I will still have to deal with them. I think the older I get the less I like this time of year. It's not that I'm a hum-bug mind you, I don't hate Christmas and Thanksgiving or anything like that. I think it's mostly that I've become jaded as to the ideas and the spirit behind it.

When you're young, Christmas is about getting presents, and giving them too, and about Santa and turkeys, and family, and snow, and other fun things. Now that I'm 24, Christmas and Thanksgiving are about working, customers, long hours, fighting the crowds to go and buy those Christmas presents for the people I actually care about, and trying to find the time I need to finish up this semester of school and do well, so that I don't have to repeat any more classes.

I really do think that this time of year is wasted on the old. I know the saying "Youth is wasted on the young." We all do, as some old fogey has said it to all of us at one point or another in our lives, but I really do think that, in our society at least, the holidays are wasted on the old. Children really are the only people that really appreciate this time of year any more. And good for them.