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I stay busy during this time of the year for two reasons: (1) The hypocrisy makes me angry, and (2) the hypocrisy brings me grief. However, as much as I exhaust myself trying not to "see what I see", eventually the exhaustion makes me unable to stay busy, and I'm left with no choice outside of confronting aspects of this depressing time of the year.
"Tis the season to be jolly"...the hell if it is. Many, many people are NOT jolly, and the images of material happiness, and the contention that "you aint shizz" if your refuge isn't material happiness makes me admire the scrooge, more and more each year.
PEOPLE ARE LONELY; THE POOR, YOUNG AND OLD, FREE AND IN BONDAGE. Santa Claus doesn't visit the prisons. He apparently doesn't like the mentally-ill homeless folks, or the crack addicted prostitutes. Tis not the season to be jolly if you have A.I.D.S., and in this recession, if you don't have anyone to help you pay for all of your prescriptions. All here in the land of plenty, the wealthiest nation on earth, or as Sean Hannity says, "The greatest country [White] God gave man." However, there is a way all of us can foster goodness in this godless time of year; We can all share our presence with someone who is lonely.
Who are the most lonely people in our communities? The elderly, without a doubt.
Think about that for a second. Pretend for a second that you're age 20. If a mystic had the ability to make you ten-million dollars richer, yet the ten million dollars would cost you your youth, and you'd awaken the next day as a healthy, rich NINETY-YEAR OLD, how many of you could honestly sacrifice your journey through life for mammon (money)? (As a side note, could we please, for once, leave religion out of this. JUST THINK.).
The point I'm trying to make is that elderly people are in a place they never wanted to be, but couldn't avoid (as we can't outside of early death, which usually isn't pleasant). How many cosmetics are sold in order to make you look OLDER? For your skin to have MORE wrinkles? For your Black hair to be MORE gray? How often to people go to the barber, and ask them to "take it all off on the top, but let it stay long on the sides?"
The most tragic part of being elderly and alone isn't the problems associated with ones appearance or health. As people age, their peers die. The people who understand this plight die, and what remains are the young, who think the elderly can't tell the difference between politeness and kindness. If you visit the elderly people in your family less than the stray cats and dogs in the neighborhoods do, this makes you nothing more than a polite house Negro. Insanity, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, depression...all of these monsters have attachments to the evil genie known as "loneliness."
Therefore, go clubbing if you'd like. There's nothing inherently wrong with that. Laugh it up with your youthful friends. Go to church and sing hymns, if that's your thing. However, if you're really trying to please Jesus, and not Santa Claus, visit someone who's lonely.
These economic times are trying, but the credit card companies can't make money off of your smile. SHARE IT:))
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