It's hard to believe that another year is almost gone. With the passing of Thanksgiving, everyone seems to warp into extreme shopping mode and to me it seems that there is little to be seen of the joy of the season on peoples' faces as they rush around trying to find the perfect gifts for friends and family...some feeling obligated to spend money they don't have making it obligatory giving at best it seems. One thing I have never quite understood about the whole thing is why, given the meaning of the observance, is so much emphasis put on buying gifts for each other? Shouldn't there be something or someone more important on people's minds than the materialistic aspect of it? And to cast an even darker shadow, the economy this year is sure to cause even more stress as everyone tries to please with less.
Maybe what I really don't like about the whole thing is that we are approaching the end of another year and life is speeding past us and there is nothing we can do to slow it down. Seems like the older you get, thoughts of the inevitable become more of a haunting reality than thoughts that were once reserved for the distant future. We rush through life like a raging river, carving our path of memories that will last only as long as we do.
Bah humbug :*(
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