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Happy New Year
Jan. 7th, 2015 10:52 pm There's nothing like Christmas to make you into a misanthrope.
I've just finished off my annual Christmas charity donation by giving £10 to Medicine Sans Frontiers which is about the only thing I feel good about after Christmas - I've donated a bit of my modest income to charity.
All the food, the generous and thoughtful gifts from my family just make me feel guilty. Even though by any standard I need them (this year my main gifts were; a new blanket, a new pair of jeans, new socks and new pants - given both my blanket and one (yes, one and I wear them every day) pair of jeans both had holes in them. At any one time, half of all my socks have holes in...)
It's hard to cope with the insane consumption that surrounds us at Christmas when that's also coupled with reminders of the abject poverty and need all I ever end up doing is feeling guilty, sad, and - more than anything - completely impotent to change the lot of those in need. I'll vote Green in May. Hopefully Caroline Lucas will get in again but it won't have an impact of the fight between the tory's and Labour for power.
God I hate January
I've just finished off my annual Christmas charity donation by giving £10 to Medicine Sans Frontiers which is about the only thing I feel good about after Christmas - I've donated a bit of my modest income to charity.
All the food, the generous and thoughtful gifts from my family just make me feel guilty. Even though by any standard I need them (this year my main gifts were; a new blanket, a new pair of jeans, new socks and new pants - given both my blanket and one (yes, one and I wear them every day) pair of jeans both had holes in them. At any one time, half of all my socks have holes in...)
It's hard to cope with the insane consumption that surrounds us at Christmas when that's also coupled with reminders of the abject poverty and need all I ever end up doing is feeling guilty, sad, and - more than anything - completely impotent to change the lot of those in need. I'll vote Green in May. Hopefully Caroline Lucas will get in again but it won't have an impact of the fight between the tory's and Labour for power.
God I hate January