Fuck Christmas

I really do hate this time of year, I have always felt removed from it. It's not that I ever wished for inclusion, it always just seemed so fucking stupid. Perhaps a Jewish upbringing can be an obvious reference point as to why I don't appreciate Christmas. Honestly though, it is a rather lowly tradition, why should anyone celebrate being dictated when and how to show your appreciation for family? Being forced to buy someone presents to show your affection for them. We all know what happens when you get the wrong damn present! Why even stress at all? 

I believe if you really loved someone, you would decide against such occasions like Christmas, you'd tell them that no matter what they think about the holiday that you truly do love them, but you do not feel that you need to express it in such a materialistic way. I am not saying you shouldn't ever buy the ones you care for presents, I am just saying you should never feel pressed to do so. Have you ever received random gifts? Don't they feel even better to receive, not knowing that they were coming? Christmas is a true testament to utter thoughtlessness and lack of a freethinking mind.

One simple example of such thoughtlessness is what is synonymous with this holiday. The blind wishing of "MERRY CHRISTMAS!". What an assumption! What if I don't celebrate it, and what if, even if I wanted to... I had no one to celebrate it with?

I once was asked what I was doing for Christmas, when I told that person I didn't celebrate it, they were shocked. I told them of my Jewish upbringing and that Christmas was never really a thing, it's kind of a crossing of religions. Not that I ever practice or really consider myself a Jew, it just never came about. The only answer I received was, "But... Everyone celebrates Christmas!!!"

No... Not everyone celebrates Christmas, I surely don't and there are plenty of other people and cultures in this world who do not celebrate it either. Pure ignorance. I wonder how much waste and clutter would be absent from this world if occasions such as this one, which I have been defecating over, did not exist. There are surely more things I could say in disdain about this lame observance, but I'd like to think I am finished with the frustration for now.