Since when is Christmas decoration supposed to be blue?? Do fashion and trends include even that on their never ending list?
I totally dislike the decoration all over Beirut's streets this year. Electric blue neon lights randomly hanging around tree trunks and sliding from top to bottom of already ugly buildings. Where is your sense of taste people? Is everyone suddenly so negligent and tasteless?
Are we decorating now just for the sake of it? Has it become an obligation, a simple habit that we find hard to leave behind?
This holiday has become obnoxiously commercial. Where is the Christmas spirit? Has it been Grinched away?
Oh and don't even get me started about the traffic, the last minute Christmas shopping that has recently become the only kind of Christmas shopping around here.
Christmas presents used to be thoughtful. Now they are whatever is faster to get, and most importantly, what is cheaper to get.
Families' gatherings have become an old fashioned way to celebrate Christmas. Sitting around a nice fire with cheese, baked potatoes and wine (whiskey for me though) at grandmother's house in the village is now a fuzzy souvenir from days past.
Since now it seems that all Christmas means anymore is unwrapping presents, everyone will be disappointed this year; due to the bad economy, the bad taste that people have acquired this year - if that is how they are decorating, I don't even want to imagine how they are choosing gifts - and the collective thoughtlessness, Christmas will fade away not too long after these horrible holidays.
How many years will Christmas survive? I am not sure, but they are definitely not too many.
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