If you follow this blog, you have realized by now that I find overt consumerism abhorrent. I think we all have spent too much time attempting to acquire stuff instead of nurturing the things that are important. I am sick of hearing that we are measured by what we own instead of by who we are. I am tired of hearing that the balms for our troubled souls are found in the aisles of Wal-Mart. So, obviously, Black Friday distresses me.
Over the years, I have heard news reports of fights starting because of a lack of toys on the shelves, people camping out in lines to be the first ones in the stores, and, appallingly, people being trampled to death in the surge into the stores. People lose their humanity in the rush to get stuff and justify it because they are giving the stuff to other people. I don't want anything that was fought over or caused the death of another person. Why would anyone else?
So I think whoever made that commercial mentioned briefly today was on the right track. Rethink your lifestyle. Reconsider what you buy. Remember the needy. Reevaluate your priorities. In other words, rethink Black Friday.
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