Over the Christmas holidays it struck me how, as a society, we have all become crazed with excess, in every sense. I work part-time at a shopping centre whilst studying for my degree and it amazed me over the weeks leading up to Christmas and the week of Christmas of how insatible the genreal public's appetite is for consumerism. There were many times late on an evening when myself and my collageues would have to physically push people out of the door so that we could close the shop. On Boxing Day our shop was flooded with people, haggling for discounts, moaning at the length of the queue they had had to wait in and then being obnoxious and rude to staff. Why is it that life cannot stop for just a few days? Surely we all deserve some calm in the hectic running of day-to-day life?
I remember when I was little - four or five years old - when Christmas was a time for family gatherings, reconnecting with loved-ones and recharging those much needed lowered batteries. In modern society it seems that life has become overly busy, excessively stressful and, as a result, full of increasingly rude people.
Last year (how odd that sounds on January 4th!) I promised myself that I would have a stress-free relaxing Christmas, but I ended getting so stressed I made myself ill. Next year I plan to remove myself from that stress and go away for the week before Christmas. Myself and my boyfriend on our own somewhere quiet - where all the shops close on a Sunday!
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