Festive

And so the "festive" season is almost upon us. A more depressing time of year I can't imagine. Full of false cheer, stupid sentiment, bugger all on the TV, relatives you don't really want to see, food you would normally avoid, cheap tacky decorations, messages of hope, bloody goodwill and numerous other "traditions" that are only foist upon us at Christmas! Do I sound like I am living up to the description of my blog, damn right I do! I don't hate this time of year but I am just tired of the whole loony mess that it has become. I like presents, who doesn't but I want to give them because I want too, not because I feel obliged to! And as for cards and decorations what a complete waste of time they are. Christmas lights on the outside of your house that could provide enough brightness to land planes by, why? What is this compunction to advertise to the country that you are a complete twat?
There was a bloke who celebrated Christmas everyday, I don't know if he still does but if so, he should be run out of the country or if he refuses to go, shoot him!
Am I a humbug, yes, I don't want to spoil peoples enjoyment I just want to keep it in proportion. Every year I am determined not to get drawn in to the whole bizarre ritual but it is unavoidable unless one locks oneself away or perhaps travel to some part of the world where it is not celebrated, if such a place exists? 
Every revolting specialist Christmas figure, decoration, seasonal stuffed toy animal, Christmas scene etc becomes inevitably more expensive each passing year and that is not just down to rising prices but the perpetrators of these ghastly objects squeezing every last penny they can out of this specialised market.
This year for the first time in a long while I actually have quite a lot of time off , I am grateful for the break and I have almost avoided the insidious non-stop parade of awful Christmas songs that are constantly repeated in almost every damn shop you enter. I could not give a flying fuck who has the Christmas number 1.its bound to be some cloying sickly record produced by some X Factor hopeful or some poor sod who has been convinced by a greedy record company that the good cause they subscribe to, can milk the public's pocket because they will garner more sympathy at this time of year, bollocks!
Santa, now there is a figure who started out as a jolly fantasy with whom children could interact and have some fun with, thanks to Hollywood and the incessant stream of Christmas movies, he has been shoved down our throats as everything from a grumpy old bastard himself to a tyrant who works his staff to meet the Christmas deadline, just like any other CEO! Either that or some poor idiot has to take over the family business because otherwise the would be no Christmas and all the children in the world would feel let down!
This assumes that in today's technology overloaded world there is a single child on the planet, that could suspend disbelief for long enough to actually think there could be a Santa Claus! 
Do I sound bitter and somewhat pessimistic on this subject? Well let me end on an uplifting note. If Christmas could be a  real catalyst (not in any religious sense, that would be just as hateful!) for some understanding and inclusiveness, of peace if you will, then we should celebrate it for that and that alone, I fear however it will just be another pathetic over indulgence wrapped in tinsel and garish paper and afterwards we will wonder why we did it and we managed to spend so much..........................!!!!

Merry Christmas everybody and a Happy New Year..............................I suppose!