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n00b's blog: "muse views"

created on 05/28/2015  |  http://fubar.com/muse-views/b363334

i know i express a lot of outrage in this blog, and probably that is because i pretty much started this as a means to express certain ideas or feelings i have that seem to lie beyond the 3rd standard deviation.

i think i am right on the mean when i say this.

i love christmas.

i love that most people seem to be a little more patient, a little more kind, a lot more happy, and a lot more relxaed.  maybe its part of the whole end of the year thing.  actually i think its because we dont have snow in San Diego. 

ok, so its not so happy at all the stores, but i think that situation is solving itself with the rise of cyber monday.  yay technology.

i have a blessed life.  what problems i face do not seem to be terminal or existential threats.  i have 4 wonderful kids (ok, thruthfully 3 wonderful kids and 1 not so wonderful) all in collge, all making progress towards their dreams.  i am also exceptionally fortunate that i am able to afford keeping them in college.  no life is perfect, and mine certainly isnt.  what i have, i have worked damn hard to get, but at the same time i have been able to take advantage of some great opportunities.  

here is my method of celebrating the holidays;

1. pay for someone else's meal

2. give your waitress/waiter a generous tip

3. reach out to someone you havnt communicated for awhile.

4. let that car get in front of you on the freeway

5. smile more

6. wear a funny hat

7. wish someone you dont like "happy holidays"

8. perform random acts of kindness

9. choose not to disagree with someone, even if they are a complete idiot.

10. truly forgive someone

there are many more ways to celebrate the holidays.  both big and small.  i believe that the small things can make big changes.  when my children were younger, we used to have a tradition we called "12 days of christmas".  we would choose a family we knew that was either struggling or just feeling forgotten, and on each of the 12 nights before christmas we would leave a gift for them.  along the theme of the song.  the essential elements of this tradition were that we do not get caught, and we do not ever tell anyone what we did.  it became a family secret.  it became a lot of fun because after 3 or 4 nights the family usually figured out what was going on, and it became a cat and mouse game of sorts of them trying to catch, and us trying to be sneaky.  i am proud to say that in all the years we did this, we were never caught.  damn close at times, but never actually fingered.  

my mother used to organize secret santa drives.  i used to get drafted into delivering everthing on christmas eve.  now i probably did not have anything else to do on christmas eve, but that didnt stop me from complaining loudly first time she frog marched me into servitude.  after that i was not so reluctant.  she was a very organized person, and very exacting in her help for these families.  their expressions of gratitude gave me memories of happiness that have lasted a lifetime and an example to last just as long.

i wish everyone JOY at this time of year, and let these feelings imbue your life through the coming year.

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