Normally, every year we have four or five new Christmas stories. Has this year been so depressing that we have none?
Normally, every year we have four or five new Christmas stories. Has this year been so depressing that we have none?
Let's put it this way - I've been clinically dead twice in my life, once due to cancer surgery when I was 23 years old, and again 4 years ago when my aortic valve decided to quit working. I am, by nature, optimistic and no matter how crappy things are, I'll come through them okay. Even earlier this year, when at nearly 60 years old, I ended up changing careers, I knew I could find something else.
But right now? It's December of 1860 as far as the tensions within the country. It's 1918 as far as the media is concerned and jamming down our throats as they try to make us so paranoid about a virus that does kill people, but now that it's through the cherry picking phase, is acting randomly and still simply isn't killing that many. It's 1984 (the book, not the real year), with the elected representatives of many areas acting as feudal lords, telling the peasants what to do, while they themselves do otherwise.
It's very difficult, but not impossible, to maintain a sense of hope, wonder, and optimism this holiday season. But ... so long as you wake up in the morning and see the top of the grass and not the roots (unless they put the sod on your new lawn upside down), then it's a good morning. And while it's not the exact date, it is when we celebrate the birth of the baby that gave us hope, and died for our sins.
Presuming that you believe that. And as I've actually said in my stories, without facts to prove otherwise, do not belittle someone else for their beliefs, for you truly do not know. You can have an opinion about them, and you can disagree with them about them, but what we believe is personal and shapes our character.
You know what? Maybe I'm not so down and depressed that I can't wish each and every one of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
It's very difficult, but not impossible, to maintain a sense of hope, wonder, and optimism this holiday season.
You'll also noticed that, aside from the lack of new Christmas stories, that they's a sudden dearth of dystopian stories, as the current reality makes it difficult to outdo the current dire situation most of us are facing.
It isn't that we've (that the collective 'we', by the way) lost all our hope, it's that we're merely exhausted, and are trying to regain our strength to continue this day-to-day fight. But just like what happened following the 1918 flu pandemic, there's likely to be an overwhelming joyful celebration of life one we've weather this particular crisis and come out the other end.
After all, as best I can tell (never watching either channel), but neither Lifetime (the wife-beater network) or Hallmark are exactly producing a ton a new stories lately either.
neither Lifetime (the wife-beater network) or Hallmark are exactly producing a ton a new stories lately either.
Each of those networks only HAS one story. They simply change the actors (or lack thereof - I ended up getting stuck watching a couple at the family Christmas, and no one participating in either of the films were in any danger of winning any kind of award other than the Razzie).
Why does nearly everyone I meet want me to marry a girl named Christmas? They tell me, Marry Christmas!
Apparently they think you are gay because they are telling you to marry Chris T Moose.
Chris T Moose
When my wife was in the hospital in the maternity ward many, many years ago, the woman in the next bed was Mrs. Moss. She was going to name her daughter Mary Chris Moss.
want me to marry a girl named Christmas?
That way you'll at least get to cum once a year...