(First posted Dec 25, 2016)
WHEN THE HOLY leaves you hanging "Oh silent" it is not, though it is Christmas and it is night.
I'm thinking the "holy" is on a leave of absence as well, though it used to be (to hear tell) the reason for the season.
One neighbour is getting in the Carnival frame of mind ... a couple of months outside of the season -- doing it full volume with the calypsoes on his super-duper sound system. If I put my head back against the wall, the bass from said system, even two houses away and across the street, rattles my teeth. I tell you.
The holy and the sacred
Meanwhile, the children next door enact a sort of a-la-Chinese water torture, calling out a refrain at regular intervals, but with enough time in between for you to hope it's not going to come, even as you wait for it to come. It also sounds unnervingly like a schoolyard taunt session. You never know these days
That's just to name a two.
Used to be you could get silent nights for the yuletide season. But, as I intimated before, that seemed connected to the aspect of the holy and the sacred in the entire affair.
Now it's all about selling things. And that always seems to invite and encourage noise.
Suck it up
I guess I should say, "To each his own." Just ... nobody ever seems to say that about me.
What I mean is, people will say that someone else has no right to "foist" their own desires and expectations upon others who have different ways of being. Yet, the same people who say such things will turn around and behave in ways that require a whole lot of people to "suck it up" when they lead their own sometimes questionable brand of living.
I don't want to be bombarded with often sexist and prurient calypsoes during the Christmas season. That's not stopping my neighbour. Yet, if I tried to ask him to turn it down a tad, he'd promptly tell me he does not have to endure me and my tastes.
But I have to endure him and his?
There's a deep message in this, that has to do with what it is people now want; not just at Christmas, but at any time, with anything, in any aspect of their lives.
So many seem to hate silence and treasure noise. Despise peace and revel in animosity. Detest human warmth and kindness and embrace mean-spiritedness and destructiveness. Are we afraid to love? Or do we just don't want to?
To quote Tupac:
"I wish I could take the pain away." And make it like Christmas Day every day?
Hey ... maybe I can. A new year is coming after all. Here's to making an effort.
Come Good
MERRY CHRISTMAS &
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
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