Jumping Jellyfish, Batman. There are only a few more months left in 2017!
It's a little early for an end of year post, but I think it's just the right time for a pre-end of year post. I mean, let's face it folks. The last three months of the year, October, November, and December, always careen on by and are gone before you even realize that they were there.
Think about it. All the good shit happens as the year draws to a close. Halloween, where you dress up and drink and party, Thanksgiving where you grin and bear it with family while you stuff your face, Christmas... Very similar to Thanksgiving, only with gifts, and New Years where you thank god the whole thing is over, swear you'll never do that again (whatever it was) and proceed to make ten resolutions that you will then break in the first week.
If you're like me and your birthday is actually in one of these months, then the time dilation is even more extreme.
But boy, wouldn't it be novel if we could fill the rest of the year with cool shit to do, too?
I mean, one way to do this would be to save up some $$$, find a way to make some away from home (which usually means online), and travel. Once you've found a way to travel and travel a lot, you win.
Of course not everyone likes to travel. In that case pick up a hobby, I dunno. Still figuring this out myself, people.
Or maybe we could just create more holidays. We could put Forgivemas in January to start off the new year. You admit everything you ever did wrong and the people you tell have to forgive you. The catch? You have to ask yourself either over the phone or in person. Messages and notes don't count if you can't prove they recieved them. A handy little game of cat and mouse where people who mostly know they did wrong hunt down people who know they've been wronged but don't want to have to forgive.
Yeah. Sounds healthy.
Maybe follow that out with Healthmas. A holiday that, for once, makes you eat only natural and healthy food. Hmm... That one might not be too popular in the western world.
How about Shopmas? There can be massive sales over which people murder and main each other to save a few bucks on stuff... Oh wait, we already have Black Friday (which at this point is more about sales than any religious anything).
Techmas? Yes, a holiday where you give gifts but they must be tech or giftcards for tech. Now there's a holiday I can get behind. That's right, folks. I will literally invent a holiday in order to avoid lame gifts. No more socks for this kid. Although, to be honest, I don't know why gift socks get a bad wrap. I always forget to buy them and when I get a pack I'm always like "Not exactly exciting but yeah, I actually kind of needed this." But I digress.
The point is that it's a little sad that so much of our time is defined by our time off. We work and pray for the weekend (well, not me fortunately, but I'm sort of paying a price for it). We look forward to the holidays, many of which we also dread. Maybe the world needs some rethinking and retooling.
Then maybe the dude next to me wouldn't have to look at hardcore porn right here in the library, as he is now doing (I swear it's a different dude every time).
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