Nowadays Christmas isn´t about family reunion and the birth of Jesus.
It´s all about shopping, presents and lot and lot of food. It´s all about consumerism. At that time shoppings are cramped. So how can we talk about crisis? Society has lost the genuine Christmas' spirit, people just think about buing new things, consuming, consuming and consuming. Well, family reunion is a beautiful thing, yes, it is, but we think that society doesn't think like that, it thinks: more people at my house at Christmas time, more gifts.
We don't say: stop Christmas. We just say: celebrate Christmas with conscience that isn't necessary use and abuse of money to buy things that people probably will never use.
And food! A lot of food is wasted, just wasted! People could give it to poor people but no, they prefer to waste it. And isn't Christmas time about charity? Well, it should be the entire year but just in Christmas people think about it but they don't do nothing, just wait for the others to do it.
Environment is a victim of this Christmas fever too. To wrap the gifts is used a lot of wrapping paper that could be replaced by a beautiful ribbon or a lace. If everybody use this technique so much paper would not be wasted and the environment would be spared the vagaries of the people who celebrate the Christmas just because of the gifts. But unnecessary use of paper isn't the only crime against the environment. Every year trees are curt down to be used as a Christmas tree. People could buy a plastic tree that could be used for several years and it isn't necessary cut down trees to use for just a month.
It´s all about shopping, presents and lot and lot of food. It´s all about consumerism. At that time shoppings are cramped. So how can we talk about crisis? Society has lost the genuine Christmas' spirit, people just think about buing new things, consuming, consuming and consuming. Well, family reunion is a beautiful thing, yes, it is, but we think that society doesn't think like that, it thinks: more people at my house at Christmas time, more gifts.
We don't say: stop Christmas. We just say: celebrate Christmas with conscience that isn't necessary use and abuse of money to buy things that people probably will never use.
And food! A lot of food is wasted, just wasted! People could give it to poor people but no, they prefer to waste it. And isn't Christmas time about charity? Well, it should be the entire year but just in Christmas people think about it but they don't do nothing, just wait for the others to do it.
Environment is a victim of this Christmas fever too. To wrap the gifts is used a lot of wrapping paper that could be replaced by a beautiful ribbon or a lace. If everybody use this technique so much paper would not be wasted and the environment would be spared the vagaries of the people who celebrate the Christmas just because of the gifts. But unnecessary use of paper isn't the only crime against the environment. Every year trees are curt down to be used as a Christmas tree. People could buy a plastic tree that could be used for several years and it isn't necessary cut down trees to use for just a month.
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