Merry Christmas and all that happy stuff to all my friends ,both christian ,non-christian .and atheists. I am a firm believer in that what you do is what you will get back .Do good ,for the sake of just plain doing good and you will get that back ten times over. Do good and expect a pat on the back for it and the hell with you..Getting a pat on the back is always a good thing ,for doing the right thing .Expecting a pat on the back...well as I say ,the hell with you.
I get the biggest kick out of "celebrities" who go visit sick kids in the hospital with a cameraman in tow. Or the politicians who visit the wounded ,with same cameraman. They make me sick. The real heroes are the ones who do it with out the cameramen.
I also don't believe donating your time or money should be a seasonal thing. I am pretty sure there are still plenty of needy people in July. That pesky homelessness or hunger thing is pretty much year round.
We pride ourselves on being the greatest country in the world. In a lot of respects we are. I may piss and moan ...and I do... but at the moment ,I wouldn't want to live anyplace else. That could change if Palin becomes president,but I digress.
The point I am trying to make is that yes it is the Christmas season,but so what? If you buy into the whole Jesus thing,then you also have to buy into the whole 365 thing. Too. many people don't ...They love the baby Jesus, from the day after Thanksgiving until December 26...then put it away til next year...just like the ornaments.
As people, we really should do a better job on the humanity front. I am no angel. I have on more than one occasion said Screw it. But I have also realized it and tried to do better.
So what I am taking the long way around the path to say is, maybe a little less Christmas and a little more humanity. I do believe at one time they may have been the same thing .
Boy I really agree with you. People should do good deeds all year round!!
ReplyDeleteLove it Nelson. Remdinds me of my Big Mama who used say "being good is its own reward."
ReplyDeleteI think you might have hit on the problem. People are in love with BABY jesus, who laid in a manger and looked cute and inspired people. Grown up Jesus pounded the pavement (uh, sand) and went around doing stuff like feeding the hungry and clothing the naked. Oh, and not resisting arrest when they cuffed him and drug him through the town just before murdering him.
That takes a kind of committment most of us don't have.
Hi Nelson,
ReplyDeleteI do agree with your completely!
Hugs!
Thanks to all of you ..sorry I am late responding!..I always forget about the comment section!
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