Christmas Allergies #Freewrite
After promising myself to write more, eleven hours later, I am ready to challenge the challenge! The Sunday was spent at the salon getting a retouch for my dreadlocks. The mood was lazy to the bone and the white sun had a lot to do with it.
When I got there, the line was crazy so I booked my spot and went to a clothes' store next door for an hour. I was looking for nothing in particular but I left with two shorts for my last born child. Then walked back into the salon just in time for my turn.
I avoid going to the salon when it's packed with the chatty farting crowd but the season is upon us. Everyone is looking to rock this Wednesday. The room was filled with 'the Christmas mood' as people indulged on how they are looking to observe it.
It would be good to state that my salon is nothing close to this. 12019° from Pixabay.
As they discussed and planned the week ahead in a festive mood, I couldn't help but think about @gooddream's bluntness on No Christmas For Me This Year.. I enjoyed how he explicitly explained that he was fine and has been fine without Christmas. I was nodding that whole read thinking you know combined with this emoji 🤷♀️
Being raised in a continent where religion seems to be everything meant Christmas was important. We had to dress up and not just dress up. It was a day to compare status through attires that we would only be allowed to wear after acquiring permission after that one day.
To then grow up to question the same religion that had me fixated on a single day the entire year is something. I don't celebrate Christmas. I don't go out that day because human traffic aint funny where I come from. I too like @gooddream don't exchange gifts or expect any.
You can then imagine how being seated in a room where you can feel people's excitement about something you have zero interest in feels like. The feeling like you don't belong is what stands out the most. And the energy to ask why it means so much to them and share why it means nothing to you isn't there.
Luckily, two hours later, I was on my way back home. Hair well made. Not for Christmas though. It's dusty and four and a half years long dreadlocks absorb dust so I can't go for long without washing it. Wednesday will find me in bed and leave me there as it fades into history.
Enjoy your Christmas though. Happy Holidays everyone ♡
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Christmas has never been about presents for me, and since I am non-religious, there is not much to it at all. I do like the focus on food and I do buy presents for my wife and daughter, but I buy them presents any time of the year anyway.
Can I ask if you grew up non-religious?
Makes sense to the current me though :)
Well, not totally, but the religion was not of the kind that is oppressive in any way - quite the opposite. It is actually called a faith and encourages acceptance and curiosity to question the nature of the world.
Damn. We seem to have skipped that lesson on this end. Something about staying pure till the Lord returns. These are the end days or so they keep saying. Sigh.
It wasn't Christianity or Islam.
I will never be part of a religion again, but if people feel that they need it they should. In my opinion, all that is important in life is discoverable without being dictated to by anyone with an agenda who claims authority .
I think before many of us realize that, religion will have crippled whatever it hasn't yet. Can you imagine how respectful we all would be of each other? Or for humanity? Nothing would be as stigmatised as everything is right now.
Sigh.
In Finland and Australia, religion has very little bearing on anything major these days. I think as people start to take more self-control, they will stop relying on some deity to save them.
Lol. Such is unheard of here. We are all sinners they keep saying so it's obvious that we need a saviour!
I know I read this one yesterday but must have gotten interrupted.
I know the feeling! But my kids still look forward to it, just as I did until my mother was no longer able to do her Xmas thing and my sister took over. I do so little now, except for cooking and a few presents, that I feel like a failure in some way. (what is wrong with me that I don't get into the Xmas spirit? that type of thing). But it's all about the spending now, and what I see the most is waste. Waste of resources of all types. You have a nice Wednesday.
Children are always hyped about the season and if mine insist, I will have them go somewhere alone. It is how I know they'll spend less because me there with them is always a disaster waiting to happen to my pockets. Cooking I might if I have the strength to but presents I won't. January takes a lot from me and I am just hibernating as what I'd waste now can be very helpful then. Enjoy your Wednesday too.