'Tis the season to think

Happy Holidays to everyone, i know it's that time of the year and you might call me ebonezer scrooge (ha spell check) not because i don't like the holidays but for what i'm about to say and what people do on them, but honestly it's something that has bothered me since i was little and i never got a direct answer for all of this.

WHY oh WHY do people ONLY want to give on the holidays? Anytime the major holidays come along (New Years,Thanksgiving,Christmas,etc) people feel like its just their born destiny to go on this giving binge. Don't get mad at me, i have no problem with people giving or anything, my direct problem is that it has to be turned on because of a holiday! seriously? a holiday?

I remember a few months ago, probably middle of october or late september i was at walmart. I was with my mom and her boyfriend and we were shopping, as we're checking out all of our groceries i notice a homless man just sitting on the bench and i'm thinking to myself "I wonder if he's aten today?" so i notice that we bought some apples. Now some people who will remain nameless (no its not my mom or me) seemed to feel "stingy" with what we just bought saying i worked hard for this money and to buy these groceries. I stared and shock and said we don't even eat apples like that and they're probably going to go to waste and i can afford to miss one meal. So i picked out 2 apples from the bag and handed them to the homeless man he thanked me graciously and anciously bit into the apples.

There wasn't any holiday,no public service announcement, nothing. That was just an act of kindness "SELF" triggered, a crap load of emphasis on self. Now why isn't it like that all the time?I mean yes i know there are the ones that actually do this and i applaud you because you actually GET it. But anyway, i'm sorry for the dissapointment and i wish everyone happy holidays and i send out to EVERYONE even though i know not many people read my blog ;) you can give anytime you want, and you don't need a fancy post card saying " 'tis the season to give" just to do so =]

-Lonnie