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Hello Grasshoppers. No lesson as such today, just a few observations and a little thinking out loud by me. Hope you're enjoying your Monday and choosing to be the calm in the middle of the Christmaschaos. I am writing this post late Sunday night.
The Remedial Christmas Shopper
Just got back from the shopping centre (mall) and it's official; I am without doubt, the world's worst exponent of the Christmas purchase. Yep, when it comes to shopping (for anything other than motorbikes, food and gym equipment), I am completely shit. So I just bought my mother a new Harley, some dumbbells and a cheesecake for Christmas. Just kidding. I know I shouldn't talk myself down but to be honest, I have no desire to be a good Christmas shopper. So it matters not. I have no shopping strategy, no enthusiasm for the task at hand, very little in the way of retail skills and a definite attitude problem. I am a retail moron. In two hours of shopping, I purchased absolutely nothing. Not one thing. Nada. Nought. Zippo. Butkus.
A Shopping Frenzy
I did, however, delight in watching thousands of people work themselves into a festive shopping frenzy. I do get distracted so easily. At one stage, I spent five minutes watching a thirty-something couple argue about presents for their family and eventually, she walked off and left him by himself in the store. I laughed my ass off. I also watched hundreds of people ignore and walk around an old man (with dementia) who was obviously distressed because he was lost (I spent ten minutes helping him find his very grateful daughter). I also watched a mother pull her son's ear so hard that I thought she might actually detach it from his head. I felt like pulling her ear but thought that perhaps I may have been charged with something. So I poked her in the eye instead. Well, I wanted to. And I won't even discuss the verbal abuse that transpired in the car park. Oops, I just did. Aaah, the joy of Christmas. Warms your heart doesn't it?
Mandatory Giving
While I do love to give gifts, I'm not really a big fan of mandatory giving on a designated date. It's all a little manufactured, robotic and commercial for me. I prefer the concept of spontaneous, random and unexpected giving - to people who actually need stuff. When I'm boss of the world, I'll do something about it but until then, excessive and unnecessary presents it shall be! The truth is that at this time of the year we spend obscene amounts of money on crap that people don't want, don't need, don't appreciate and will probably never use. On some level, we feel obligated to buy something because apparently that's the rule; how we've been programmed in our culture. Imagine if we did something collectively magnanimous... like if the two billion of us who don't live in poverty all bought something for the four billion who do. Nah, you're right; too hard. Another Xbox anyone? And because many of us (okay, mainly blokes) leave it to the last minute, we tend to waste even more money and make even worse decisions because we're on a time budget, we're disorganised, we're lazy and we gotta buy something in the next hour!
Give it to Someone Who Needs it.
I tell all of my friends not to buy me anything. At all. I don't need anything. Not unless they can buy me some gift-wrapped enlightenment, consciousness or wisdom from a department store. I tell them to either keep the money or to give what they would have spent on me to someone who genuinely needs it. That would make for a meaningful gesture and be a gift which is in keeping with what this time of year should be about. In my (often unpopular) opinion.
Shopping Centre Chaos
As you might expect on the Sunday before Christmas, the afore-mentioned shopping centre was complete chaos today; a sea of frenetic humanity. If not for the fact that I might get assaulted or kicked out by security, I'd love to take a video camera and film people doing what they do. Shopping centres at this time of the year are indeed a fascinating study in human behaviour. People change. Normal people become abnormal. Small, frail women become intimidating, focused and aggressive psychopaths, while big strong alpha-males become pathetic, confused and inept dweebs. And by Christmas Eve, most shop assistants have been turned into personality-less, exhausted retail zombies.
So I guess the question for me this year is, do I conform and shop till I drop, or do I tell my friends and family that they are getting nada from me but they have unknowingly fed and clothed a very grateful family in Southern Sudan?
I'll let you know what I decide.
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