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The Damn Holidays ... Do you really need to wait a full year to give a present that matters, a thank you for all you do for me, a have a great day or hey is your gender and not other people in the planet day ? Holy should suppose to be sacred, a day in which sharing by just that fact , makes it an awesome day. But then the commercial and marketing machines made of the Holiday a, buy stuff day or wont mean anything. If I am getting something daily for that person that tolerate my worst, share my best and is there when ups and downs, a thank you often will make it up and a nice homemade cook dinner ( even if there is no knowledge on cooking, a good clear reading of a cooking book will for sure make anything decent for other to appreciate ), and just the presence, the quality time giving to others should be enough. But we have been brain-washed , that we must consume, buy and give specific days of the year ( which each year are many more ) in order to keep the pockets full of those executives that get all the big money and barely spend one day with their families but encourage all of us to buy their things so our gatherings can matter. It is ironic how holidays become a marketing machine and now " measurement " of consumer behavior start on thanksgiving day promotions. So, consumer behavior, it was not about the holiday anymore, if you get home with just a tuna can daily to share with those and thank them , it wont matter if in the " official " day in which you suppose to thank, you don't throw your wallet in the mall to get some smiles out of your beloved one. I personally reject presents on my birthday, I prepare a nice meal, or invite them to a nice meal in case I am unaware to prepare it myself, because my birthday is the day I was given to the world, so it should be the day I continue giving to the ones around, not backwards. What about a Holiday in which people just give hugs and cook something instead of giving a present, instead of buying a game console or a TV set in promotion for someone else ? What will happen to " consumer behavior " then , we will became human and sensitive and then " anti consumers " ? Remember " thanks " is a simple word that will means much if you bring the right actions with it, not the right presents. The Universe is billion of years old, you wont live even 100, so enjoy more and travel light. |
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But then the commercial and marketing machines made of the Holiday a, buy stuff day or wont mean anything. But we have been brain-washed , that we must consume, buy and give specific days of the year It is ironic how holidays become a marketing machine and now " measurement " of consumer behavior start on thanksgiving day promotions. So, consumer behavior, it was not about the holiday anymore, I certainly agree.. I don't get excited about holidays for shopping or gift giving, and certainly I'm not in a cycle of expecting to receive anything on such occasions. I do give my mother gifts on Christmas and her Birthday, but I also give to her all year equally so. this last madness of shopping claimed as 'Black Friday" is a fools joke to me. Merchandisers, are only unloading the items in their inventory so they can stock up with the next generation of products. and set people up for the next shopping cycle. I did not buy anything, because I don't see anything that I need, and certainly I don't need it enough to go out and hassle with crowds just to get it. We often times have more things at home than we have time to deal with, and many many people have garages stuffed with things and some even have storage units filled with things, they will never in life again utilize. We've been bombarded by commercial advertisement, the down side is that companies have become so robotic-ally controlled to keep up with the pace of this greed fest, the human element was ignored, that if people don't work they can't buy what these robots crate. suddnely, we have become a world that no longer produce hand made quality products that are durable, we produce blast molded things which are disposable, but do not break down in the landfills, but they are useless by non function long before they are sent to the land fills. It's a non ending cycle, but we as people have to stop and think of what point of usefulness does a thing provide and what can we achieve with that usefulness ....before we just purchase things because they are shiny and highly promoted. I see the cell phone craze, when people trade on model less than a year to get the next new things, and still they don't do any more with it than they did with the last one. The human gathering for the sake of harmony was sold out to merchandising madness... and when TV came along it became more and more about product sales than about people.
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11/28/2011 12:05 am |
I think when kids, is when the appreciation for the little details and the company of the ones close matter most, and is when we suppose to learn that the other are just extra things, specially if we learn to live with what we have and keep reality in place. Ernest Hemingway " Struggle for Life " tenet. Keep real the people we can support ourselves on, and view extra things as extra, and not get obsessive with things we cannot get is based in life. However banks and credit companies work daily and invest millions in try to let us know that we can own them our lives and think we can get some sort of attachment to those extras. That big machine of " you can get all you want " ( but own us your ass ) and hidden advertisement, the usual fine printing, all those strategies that make people believe in things they do not even need. Yeah, back yards plenty of trash and things were never even used. The Universe is billion of years old, you wont live even 100, so enjoy more and travel light.
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