Digital by Birth Xmas Message
Every year I do my band's Christmas message and every year its
pretty much the same but I figure it goes out to slightly more people
each time
so here we go. . .
Basically it goes back to when I was about seven or so years old and
my parents asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I can honestly say
there was absolutely nothing I wanted to get, not one thing. I remember
looking at the Argos Xmas catalogue and thinking whats
wrong with
me? Why is there nothing I want??? Well I wish Id stuck
to my guns and realised I didnt need anything and just because
this pseudo-Christian celebration dictated that I should, I didnt
actually have to ask for anything. Well I was a kid so instead I went
for an Action Force Hovercraft, which started off an obsession
of buying these said military toys for years even past the age I was
probably too old for them. You see what Ive realised since is
I bought or had
bought for me these toys which I would play with for a few days,
then abandon, looking for the next one, always the next one. Mainly
it was to
fill a void. Ive read the Dalai Lamas Book of Awakens
since and I see this now as a clear embodiment of what he talks about,
ie we desire
something but soon get bored of it and without actual spiritual happiness
we are doomed to repeat the procedure of buying and tiring of something
again and again until we realise what we really need in within us.
Theres much more I could say like this celebration of Jesus Christs
birth is actually a sham as theres no evidence he was actually
born on this day and that the Christian Church merely tagged it onto
an existing pagan festival as a means of converting followers to their
thinking OR
that theres no need to ONLY be nice to people at Xmas and not
all the time instead or even that you shouldnt be forced to buy
gifts for people just because of the fact that its universally
expected at this time of year without question, while making billions
for all manner of companies and such, instead of just buying a gift
when you want to, at any old time. Or even that the true
message of Christmas has been diluted by Capitalism BUT instead Im
going to finish with this . . .
Images by Phil Rose esq
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