Holiday dissonance

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I spent these two days alone. All my my life I was alone a Xmas at, new year’s eve, Easter and the so called Assumption. Except for new year’s eve, they all should be religious holidays, holidays to celebrate community, companionship, fraternity. What happens is that they they are all celebrations of consumption and separateness. The chasm between the poor and the rich is magnified even more and no ludicrous act of charity, dictated but some feeling of guilt can heal the wounds in society. But there is an even greater chasm which is magnified: that between the rich and the poor in the realm of social bonds. There is a strong pressure of the rich (in this realm) on the destitute to participate, even if their participation can not be but dissonant. The destitute has a difficult choice: either to accept to be present at the great celebration of unexisting bonds. Crumblig bonds, revived provisionally by overeating and exchanging meaniningless costly gifts. Or stay away: the dissonance does not disappear in either case.

Right on....I don't know if people in my family are buying me gifts because they really think I woul benefit from them, or if they are just going through the motions.

I wish I had the courage to tell them "to not buy me anything". But I think they would ignore me anyways, I really don't need anymore clutter.