Gift Aid

Here we are. The Christmas and New Year left behind once more again. Without causing any serious family trouble, not yet... All these craziness of buying presents, worries that if somebody who you bought a present won't like it or the presents you bought are not expensive enough... left behind once more.

I have to confess, I hate it. Simply, I hate the social pressure on me that forces me to buy presents. It's not that I dislike giving, it is the force that doesn't leave me a choice to give presents to who I really like or who really deserves it or the choice of times that I can give presents at. Every Christmas time, I get depressed, because with a little budget (that I earn really hard) I try to keep everybody happy.

Yes, I receive presents in return but who wants that exchanging of presents!!! I prefer to buy whatever I want and whenever I need it. Yes, we do ask eachother for what they want as a gift to avoid the unwanted presents but where is the surprise of receiving and giving gifts if you do that? How mechanical and emotionless is this?

Now, Christmas left behind, with a new year there are birthdays waiting in their places for the right time to attack on us. It means presents, again. Presents for the peoeple that have got everything and whatever you buy won't make them happy. Not just that, what is the point of celebration of ageing anyway and, why people assume that it is something everybody celebrate happly?

I am going to send an e-mail to everybody in the family saying, from now on I don't want birthday and Christmas gifts and I won't be giving to anybody in these expected times. I will do it whenever I want. End of it.