Midnight Mass Hysteria!

Have you seen John Lewis Christmas Advert 2011 ??

Well this Ad will give you a hint on today's topic. Today; December 25th.

Mass Hysteria, also known as collective/group hysteria or collective obsessional behavior. It is the manifestation of the same or similar hysterical symptoms by more than one person.
Sounds familiar??
Merry Christmas!

It all started three weeks ago-like every other year- shops start decorating, Coca Cola's icon-Santa Claus is suddenly everywhere.

But it doesn't end there...

People start showing symptoms of the seasonal disorder, it starts with the "christmas spirit" where everyone becomes so hyper and joyful all the time, girls will start posting their traditional status of: "Last christmas I gave you my heart..." (What ever happened to learning from our mistakes!!), guys will start uploading pictures of half naked girls wearing teared up pieces of santa/coca cola's uniform because that's the standards for "cool" nowadays.

I, personally, have had enough of the "christmas spirit" before it even started.
Unfortunatly the whole situation escalades reaching its peak on December 24th when everyone is so intense, preparing for the holy night, everything is so edgy, every bedroom, living room, kitchen is full of people busy doing stuff (altho if you look closely, they are doing nothing but running around like lunatics releasing stress and all the hysterical energy that comes along).

What is worse than our homes is SOCIAL NETWORKING.
From facebook, twitter, whatsapp, bbm... To your cellphone, laptop, ipad...
The tweets, status, messages.... And the new messages substitute- whatsapp/bbm (It is pathetic yet hilarious how this year I didn't get not even one actual message, but my whatsapp was going crazy- Thanks dear friends and family, you are truely generous!)

Anyhow, what is up with all the posts people!! "MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYOOOONE FRIENDS FAMILY I LOVE YOU ALL MAY JESUS BLESS YOUUU ALL MAY  YOU ALL LIVE IN PEACE ... ONE MORE THING, I LOVE YOU AAAAAAAALL".. It may have sounded right when you were posting it, but reading it now sounds a little bit stupid, don't you think? and the Caps Lock, it is kind of meaningless because no, no one can hear you scream; also repeating this much letters only gives out that your keyboard is messed up. So how about you ask santa for a new laptop and spare most of us the diziness everytime we look at our homepage!

How about we get more creative for a change; If you really feel the need to give out wishes, why not wish 90210 watchers lots of sex (they need it!); how about we wish the less fortunate the lottery prize, or maybe wish your stoner friends that they will eventually legalize it!
You see, the more personal you wishes get, the more it shows how much you mean it.

I hope that we will eventually get to a point where we will be intellectual enough to stop wishing. "I wish" doesn't get you laid, build home for the poor, or get your pothead friend through the military roadblock.
If you really want something to happen, if you really want to help out; Step up and BE THE CHANGE!

Writing this post was my personal hysteria, I don't think any of us will snap out of it before January 1st; We are, after all, subjects to our collective unconscious.

Cheers!