Mine almost reads like the lines from a tv mail order ad:
"Not sold in stores."
- pfft, I know.
"Act now and we'll..."
- Ugh. That means doing stuff. Staying my ass here means Internet and games.
"... double your order!"
- Fuck that. Not even sure yet if I want just the one.
Alienation from people can easily be bough, I think it's even free in some cases and that's all I ever wanted for christmas. to be a happy introvert, alone in my room doing introverted things involving lots of tea, books, music and internet.
As a child it was all about the gifts you get, as a parent and husband it is now about the gifts we give, because what we really want will not fit in Santa's sack. I remember one Christmas that all we wanted was for the lump my wife had to not be cancerous. Santa forgot about us that year. This year we wanted my cousin's baby to be healthy, she was stillborn. I think part of the Magic of Christmas that children enjoy is that most of them are shielded (sometimes at great personal expense to parents) from the daily sadness that is the real world, if only for a couple days. As we get older there is nobody to shield us as effectively or at all. Sometimes you don't realize until you are older just how much your parents do for you.
"Not sold in stores."
- pfft, I know.
"Act now and we'll..."
- Ugh. That means doing stuff. Staying my ass here means Internet and games.
"... double your order!"
- Fuck that. Not even sure yet if I want just the one.