Christmas Cards

[poliphilo]

We're not sending Christmas cards this year. Ailz says it's because she wants to give the money we'll save to a deserving charity. I say it's because I just don't want to.

Christmas cards belong to an age before there were Facebook and Twitter- and the telephone- and all those other new-fangled ways we have of keeping in touch. The sending of cards has become a socially-enforced ritual. There's very little joy in it.

Ailz's mother says we should at least send cards to family. I say family- the people with whom we're most frequently in touch- are the last people we should bother with.

Comments

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

I love to send cards... love it. But I won't do it unless I have the time to paint my own and compose the poem on the inside. Sending storebought cards gives me no pleasure.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

What you're doing is completely different. You're not sending cards, you're sending gifts.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

I had not thought of it that way. Hmm!