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Saturday, December 18, 2004

unholiday wishes 

Another christmas is upon us.
And what a way to celebrate the birth of our saviour by a month of frenzied, stressed out, holiday shopping. everywhere i look is advertisments for gift giving, especially since i work at a mall. Everyday i see people carrying huge shopping bags from various stores, and some people carrying many bags from many stores. And i feel terrible about it. Why you ask? It is because i cannot afford to spend my hard earned dollars on other people. I need it it live. I'm sure my friends and family understand what i must do with my money instead. So i have to look for other options in my 'gift giving'. However, this is not possible. I can't create anything. Because i work pretty much overtime all month. Hell, i even work christmas Eve.

This is an alarm call to people out there. whom ever may read this. You need to pay hommage to the people who must work through the holiday season: police officers, fire fighters, doctors, and all other related mumbo jumbo. Cooks and Chefs, waitstaff, bus drivers, taxi drivers, convience store workers, people who work in utilities, people in the transportation industry, pilots, train drivers, and the people who keep tabs on them, Soldiers. And we cannot forget the homemakers. This time of year is stressful to us all, but most importantly to these people, who want nothing more than to be with the people they love but cannot because they have a job to do.

This christmas is going to be a strange one indeed. I do not get to spend it at home, helping my family through christmas, i get to spend it at work, then with my loved one at home, but then it's back to work again. This christmas i will not get a tree filled with momentos of my public school crafts, (i don't even know if i'll have a tree, hopefully). I won't get the tradition of seeing my grandmother, showering her with hugs, then gifts.

I hope that everyone who reads this has a really great christmas, because you all deserve it, whether you think so or not.

better years await us...rustedhalo

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