Trouble!? With Christmas? At Christmas time? Seriously? Yes!
You see friends, frankly speaking, this “season” is tailor-made to evoke and evince both the good and the worst in too many of us. And it all has to do with the attitudes of various groups to what should be a wholly joyous healthy festival of positive celebration. So what do I mean by “trouble”? Trouble with Christmas?
Well to begin with, the real reason for the season is submerged by too many negative distractions. Both the hardnosed Christians and Muslim, Hindu business persons emphasise money and materials at this time. So-called celebration of the birth motivates enormous uncalled-for “wants” – the want for a new household; additional unnecessary clothes and equipment; even irrelevant decorations; the “want” to please with fake speeches of “giving back” and once-a-year generosity; the generation of young people wanting what they don’t actually need; of course politicians utilise the “season” either to denigrate, glorify or boast.
