Holiday Madness

So yeah, I know the holidays already ended and stuff, but I haven't had any time to post this.

Apart from the usual same thing of going far away to visit family, to me, the Thanksgiving-New Year's time is nothing more than a 2-month guilt trip.

You see, I'm not deeply religious nor have anything against Christian believes, but the consumerism on the Holidays is a thing which I find vile and grotesque.

I am not American myself, but I came across this Walmart store in Eagle Pass, TX for a stopover while on my way to visit family, and what I saw was simply disgusting. The store was a mess.

It was December 23rd and the entire store was flipped over, everything was out of place, there was not much people in the store, but you could imagine the amount of people there had been there last night.

Consumerism cracks to the Number One spot of the things I hate the most in life,k and it's precisely what we see the most in department stores like Walmart and Target. People cramming junk into their carts, fighting over the last item in a shelf... "This Is Madness!", as my good friend Gerald Butler would say.

Why madness? Simply because of the fact that, let's face it, you don't need even half of what you're buying. Therefore we're wasting, both, resources and money unreasonably, and worse than that, excessively.

"Well, I got the money to buy this." As someone would say. You know, I once watched a very good documentary in Chemistry class, it was called "How Stuff Works" or something like that, and it's right! Seriously, can five dollars pay for the amount of workers, the amount of resources, and the amount of fuel needed to manufacture and take to Target or Walmart this alarm clock?