Thank Any God It’s Friday!
Black Friday.
Is it ever.
People physically dead from the stampedes in a Wal-mart.
People emotionally dead from the stampedes in their souls.
I have to wonder about all the crap that goes on in the name of holidays and the holiday spirit. What does that mean anyway? A couple days off work? Time and a half pay for those who work on Fridays? Trampling people to death for a few bucks off already cheap goods?
People in this commercial world don’t know the meaning of love. We treat our relationships like Happy Meals and listen to broken heart songs (or let’s get fucked up and fuck songs) and think that’s the way it is supposed to be. Our commercialization of our holidays is directly proportional to our commercialization of our intimacy. We give cards and candy at Valentine’s rather than give of our hearts and souls. We find a way to trample over the innocent—whether opening the door at a Wal-mart or sitting in a sweatshop in China—in our quest for the thirty second high of a child under a tree we cut down from a forest that provides life to this planet.
Our holidays have become about as dead as our people skills.
Oh. And if you think I’m projecting my own personal life on a whole population of the world, just look around you. How many relationships are falling apart? How many relationships look normal on the outside and are falling apart on the inside where you can’t see it? It’s the candy coated apple that lacks the intimacy of the apple itself. One has to have the caramel coating in order to swallow it down.
The human race, as a whole, has lost its spine for truth and with it has lost the ability to deal with honesty, commitment, love, and intimacy on a whole scale of various concerns.
So, yes: thank god—any god—that it’s Friday. After spending a whole day in platitudes and pleasantries, we get the next day to see the real face of mankind: death. The day before is merely the sugar-coated, gift-wrapped, smile-laced day of good feelings and mindless consumption.
And then the reality sinks in. Death by any other name …
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