Kwanzaa Greeting

With the holidays approaching, there are a lot of planning and decorating fun happens. As we get closer to the date of celebration, be it Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year or whatever else you might be celebrating, stress often begins to rise slightly. Not only through the purchase of standard or what is going through travel and / or family gatherings, even if they are all contributors to holiday stress ... A massive part of holiday stress revolves around the sending of greeting cards for the holidays. Although this is a great convention that dates back as far as anyone can remember right, I have a problem with the management of this tradition seems to have taken, and I hope my feelings are shared, or shared or at least thought of by others. This issue has to do with the actual message being sent to everyone "list relatives."

I have the distinct impression that for many people these days, sending holiday cards is like the cards from the early years of Valentine in the opposite direction. As a kid it seemed that the more cards you were given, the more "popular" or you felt accepted. As adults in the company in charge today, I receive the light that many people try to copy these types of self same feelings by sending holiday cards as it is recognized and accepted and a "gesture of attention and consideration to do. " With all due respect, I must say that much depends on how these maps and / or communications are sent.

The fact that dark apparently many people think that simply loading up a database of names (and database do not think I get all the techies on you ... I just want to say a electronic address book of names and addresses), and mail them to the fusion of envelopes containing a card that announces something along the lines of "Happy Holidays" with their name scrawled on the bottom is a "benevolent gesture and attentive. " I say "No Way!

I do not care if it has a picture of you and your children in front, if it is you and your dog or moggy if it is a bonding together of friends, family, and the places you have visited during the past year ... If you do not want to take some time to write some kind of private notes on the map so I know you got me meditating when you put them together rather than just go through the motions of diffusion of the hundreds of "vows warm in a mass, the robot mode ... Save yourself the stamp and the envelope. Send it to someone who cares as much as you.

If you are my friend or family, whether near or far, I need to keep in touch with some new ... Not just a "Oh yes, I remember. And are not my cute picture?! message type. For me, if I am not worth this kind of effort, it's OK ... that's we are all busy and folk drift out of our lives. That's ordinary. But to pretend it's something going and with a card with nothing to get totally impersonal "dedicated" your name below the universal message printed on each card ... No thank you.

If things are too hard for it during the holidays to keep in touch with me or if I'm too busy to keep in touch with you, that's OK is. I will send or receive the equivalent of a Merry Christmas card in the middle of the year, and if it has some kind of personal message from me to you or vice versa, it is interesting to 1,000,000 times more than the inept excuse for an individual card sent "when you intended to send." But hey, that's it's just me.