For the Love of Money, Christmas and I forgot; 'Hymns'
To be true to myself I must write about this one issue that has been grappling my mind for the past 48 hrs. I'm gonna call it the Economics of Love Theory.
With Christmas only 12 days away and New Years another 18 days away many people begin to feel what is widely known as holiday cheer. Which is an external representation of compassion and love. For many it is giving back to their community, spending time with their friends and the ones they love.
In fact Christmas advertising promotes love and compassion, it also speaks to fostering relationships. In Jamaica we may not have the so called american values like, Santa Claus , and Christmas eve dinners, snow and cold weather or even Mistletoe; and what not we see on TV. But everywhere around the world Love just seems to spring up as if it wasn't there before or it was hiding.
Probably it was hiding somewhere, but the fact that its here during this season makes a whole lot of a difference. Compassion and love appear to drive holiday sales and allow for businesses to make some extra money to keep them afloat or just rich.
The lingering question is why not all year round, why act irrationally now, buying things you don't need for gift giving sake, overeating and running up expenses to make January a fiscally dry month, why? There is in fact no answer to this question, but one of the problems that Economist make assuming that consumers are rational, the fact is the general pool behaves off norms and traditions.
To conclude I actually love Christmas time, especially the movies but all those love stories and feel good shows are just a commercial scheme to make you consume more. But as I said we aren't rational so we'll continue to do it for years to come. Just don't forget to pass down the real traditions and not the commercial ones.
A Christmas Joke for all your troubles:
The Sunday before Christmas, a pastor told his congregation that the church needed some extra money. He asked the people to consider donating a little more than usual into the offering plate. He said that whoever gave the most would be able to pick out three hymns. After the offering plates were passed, the pastor glanced down and noticed that someone had placed a $1,000 bill in offering.
He was so excited that he immediately shared his joy with his congregation and said he'd like to personally thank the person who placed the money in the plate. A very quiet, elderly, saintly looking lady all the way in the back shyly raised her hand. The pastor asked her to come to the front.
Slowly she made her way to the pastor. He told her how wonderful it was that she gave so much and in thanks asked her to pick out three hymns. Her eyes brightened as she looked over the congregation, pointed to the three most handsome men in the building and said, "I'll take him and him and him."
With Christmas only 12 days away and New Years another 18 days away many people begin to feel what is widely known as holiday cheer. Which is an external representation of compassion and love. For many it is giving back to their community, spending time with their friends and the ones they love.
In fact Christmas advertising promotes love and compassion, it also speaks to fostering relationships. In Jamaica we may not have the so called american values like, Santa Claus , and Christmas eve dinners, snow and cold weather or even Mistletoe; and what not we see on TV. But everywhere around the world Love just seems to spring up as if it wasn't there before or it was hiding.
Probably it was hiding somewhere, but the fact that its here during this season makes a whole lot of a difference. Compassion and love appear to drive holiday sales and allow for businesses to make some extra money to keep them afloat or just rich.
The lingering question is why not all year round, why act irrationally now, buying things you don't need for gift giving sake, overeating and running up expenses to make January a fiscally dry month, why? There is in fact no answer to this question, but one of the problems that Economist make assuming that consumers are rational, the fact is the general pool behaves off norms and traditions.
To conclude I actually love Christmas time, especially the movies but all those love stories and feel good shows are just a commercial scheme to make you consume more. But as I said we aren't rational so we'll continue to do it for years to come. Just don't forget to pass down the real traditions and not the commercial ones.
A Christmas Joke for all your troubles:
The Sunday before Christmas, a pastor told his congregation that the church needed some extra money. He asked the people to consider donating a little more than usual into the offering plate. He said that whoever gave the most would be able to pick out three hymns. After the offering plates were passed, the pastor glanced down and noticed that someone had placed a $1,000 bill in offering.
He was so excited that he immediately shared his joy with his congregation and said he'd like to personally thank the person who placed the money in the plate. A very quiet, elderly, saintly looking lady all the way in the back shyly raised her hand. The pastor asked her to come to the front.
Slowly she made her way to the pastor. He told her how wonderful it was that she gave so much and in thanks asked her to pick out three hymns. Her eyes brightened as she looked over the congregation, pointed to the three most handsome men in the building and said, "I'll take him and him and him."
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