It's that time of year again, when everyone you ignore the rest of the year send you a subtle reminder that they're still alive and kicking. You go to check your mail, and hidden in between your bills and some junk mail is a Christmas card.

 

 

At that moment, you start realizing this is just the beginning of what will soon be a huge assortment of "Happy Holidays" and "From our family to yours". You will soon gather a decent collection of family portraits, all looking slightly to their right and dressed in their 'Sunday best' clothes. As if receiving all these Christmas cards isn't enough, you may soon fear checking your email due to the growing popularity of Christmas E-cards. Now, given a choice, I'll gladly accept an E-card over a mailed paper card. I understand it's considered more personal to send a card with a family portrait in the mail than it is to send an E-card with a couple pictures attached. I don't understand how a good portion of these same people that send out tons of these cards spend the rest of the year explaining how most people are evil for not being more environmentally helpful and for wasting the planet's resources. Can you detect the hypocrisy here?

 

 

I'm an not a grinch. I just don't see the point in sending out Christmas cards when I know I personally could care less. It's nice to know you care enough to remember me during this time of year, but I certainly wouldn't mind just getting an E-card. If you do send a Christmas E-card, at least now you know you won't have to worry if I thought it was impersonal... I'll be happy, and isn't that what the holiday season is all about?

 

 

This rant written by Joe Rosendorf Jr.  This is merely an opinion based on personal experiences, and is intended to inform based on those experiences.