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Friday, December 26, 2003
Damn Materialistic Society
So I'm going to start off with whats been on my mind for a couple of days. I feel as though this society is much too materialistic. Christmas, for example is a time for family and friends to get together and enjoy each others company, for me at least. For others it goes even deeper than that, it's about some miracle of a virgin giving birth to the savior and my knowledge isn't that great about Jesus and whatnot because I don't believe in it but I definitely won't critisize others for believing.
There's another topic I'm quite baffled on. How I'm agnostic and I'm not baised at all towards others who are religious but on the other hand religious people are biased against me. It's part of the reason I usually keep the knowledge of being agnostic to myself. Last year when I told a close friend about it she ripped me to shreds and then told me I was going to hell. After that her religious friends always looked down upon me and always said nasty things. I even tried to commit myself to god and everything and went to church with her to make her happy and I just felt horrible that I wasn't being true to what I truely believed and in the end I couldn't convert.
So now that I got that off my chest (it's been bothering me quite some time) I can continue upon my theory of how this society is materialistic and how that applies to Christmas. So to follow the religion of which most people belong to a tradition is giving and recieving presents. That's fine and dandy but within this tradition we've lost what Christmas should really mean and replaced it with a time to get gifts. So this Christmas for whichever reason no one recieved a single present and the funny thing was I realized how unnecessary they are. I've never really thought they were necessary but Christmas without presents would be different and it was but not in a bad way.
Of course I'm jealous of all the cool things my friends recieved but also I'm glad I didn't need presents to appreciate something... having my whole family together if only for a few hours. Then the rest of the day and night I was alone again and enjoyed the earlier moments I shared with my family. It's really going to be different when my siblings go on their separate ways and then I'll really be alone. So right now what I've been trying to say these post paragraphs is that I'm trying to enjoy my family and being together with them without any added obstacles or distractions for what time we have left together. I'm just glad I've realized it before we split up.
So I'm going to start off with whats been on my mind for a couple of days. I feel as though this society is much too materialistic. Christmas, for example is a time for family and friends to get together and enjoy each others company, for me at least. For others it goes even deeper than that, it's about some miracle of a virgin giving birth to the savior and my knowledge isn't that great about Jesus and whatnot because I don't believe in it but I definitely won't critisize others for believing.
There's another topic I'm quite baffled on. How I'm agnostic and I'm not baised at all towards others who are religious but on the other hand religious people are biased against me. It's part of the reason I usually keep the knowledge of being agnostic to myself. Last year when I told a close friend about it she ripped me to shreds and then told me I was going to hell. After that her religious friends always looked down upon me and always said nasty things. I even tried to commit myself to god and everything and went to church with her to make her happy and I just felt horrible that I wasn't being true to what I truely believed and in the end I couldn't convert.
So now that I got that off my chest (it's been bothering me quite some time) I can continue upon my theory of how this society is materialistic and how that applies to Christmas. So to follow the religion of which most people belong to a tradition is giving and recieving presents. That's fine and dandy but within this tradition we've lost what Christmas should really mean and replaced it with a time to get gifts. So this Christmas for whichever reason no one recieved a single present and the funny thing was I realized how unnecessary they are. I've never really thought they were necessary but Christmas without presents would be different and it was but not in a bad way.
Of course I'm jealous of all the cool things my friends recieved but also I'm glad I didn't need presents to appreciate something... having my whole family together if only for a few hours. Then the rest of the day and night I was alone again and enjoyed the earlier moments I shared with my family. It's really going to be different when my siblings go on their separate ways and then I'll really be alone. So right now what I've been trying to say these post paragraphs is that I'm trying to enjoy my family and being together with them without any added obstacles or distractions for what time we have left together. I'm just glad I've realized it before we split up.
Mandy ~ 8:30 PM