What makes me angry.... (cont'd.)
Dec. 22nd, 2006 08:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poltr1To continue where I left off yesterday.....
I did some more thinking as to where my anger is coming from.
When I was reading the discussion yesterday on how to greet people during the season, I know I was put out by the opinion of folks who said they'd prefer to hear "Merry Christmas" than "Happy Holidays". Unless there are outward signs of faith, like a yarmulke or a turban, or jewelry, I have no way of knowing what faith people are. So I take the safe road and wish them "Happy Holidays". I don't want to set people off by wishing them a holiday greeting for a holiday they don't celebrate.
Throughout my family, my relatives and some friends see me as I was in the past, not as I am now. That's another irritant. I've grown and changed, and people don't see it.
Several years ago, someone in my Toastmasters club complained about how Christmas became shorted to Xmas. What this person probably didn't realize is that X -- the Greek letter chi -- is the first letter in the Greek word "christos", and that theologians often shorten Christianity to Xtianity.
I'm also out out by the incessant materialism and greed of the season, and have been for years.
And I know full well that all this good-feeling-around-the-holiday stuff is going to dissipate on the 26th.
I did some more thinking as to where my anger is coming from.
When I was reading the discussion yesterday on how to greet people during the season, I know I was put out by the opinion of folks who said they'd prefer to hear "Merry Christmas" than "Happy Holidays". Unless there are outward signs of faith, like a yarmulke or a turban, or jewelry, I have no way of knowing what faith people are. So I take the safe road and wish them "Happy Holidays". I don't want to set people off by wishing them a holiday greeting for a holiday they don't celebrate.
Throughout my family, my relatives and some friends see me as I was in the past, not as I am now. That's another irritant. I've grown and changed, and people don't see it.
Several years ago, someone in my Toastmasters club complained about how Christmas became shorted to Xmas. What this person probably didn't realize is that X -- the Greek letter chi -- is the first letter in the Greek word "christos", and that theologians often shorten Christianity to Xtianity.
I'm also out out by the incessant materialism and greed of the season, and have been for years.
And I know full well that all this good-feeling-around-the-holiday stuff is going to dissipate on the 26th.
