Next week today is Black Friday: the busiest shopping day in North America/around the world to date, but there's a lesson to be learnt here about materialism and desirable want over unnecessary greed and the value of feeling over material possessions.

You see...the holiday season is not about buying and getting what you want, it's really about the presence of emotional feelings when you give something over receiving something you want like happiness/joy/comfort, and an understandable feeling of passiveness and peace towards one-another regardless of genderality/religion/country/or skin color, not through high cost purchases of mass-market products in the sole name of consumerism.

The point is.and i hope i'm getting this right without offending anyone...is that this is a time meant to be shared together as family and friends (though not as closely gathered due to the continuing pandemic), doing things that fill your heart and soul with the holiday spirit. EG: making gingerbread houses, sending Christmas cards to friends abroad, having egg nog drinking games, going out caroling/making snow angles/sledding down hills, watching classic holiday movies and TV specials of your favorite shows, and altogether embracing the feelings you share that help yourself and others get though the tough times both behind and ahead in our lives.

So with all that said and done i hope most of you understand what i said about today and i just can't figure out anymore words to describe what i'm conveying...so enjoy your day, get what's necessarily needed for the people on your lists, and try not to get stampeded to death among the herds of other shoppers who's ideals are much different than yours and mine.

Happy Black Friday and Happy Holidays!