With Christmas rapidly approaching it feels as though normalcy as we all know it has completely gone out the window to a point that even a guy like me has to stop for second, look around and realize something has gone completely screwy with people.

I don't really understand it...maybe that is because my A.D.D. riddled brain really won't let me, or maybe it's because it doesn't want too. Who knows. Either way something is off kilter.

When I was a kid everything was simpler, made more sense and required less batteries.

I really have to wonder what has become of the holiday season. When did we all let it stress us out more then make us happy? I remember when I was really little and I couldn't sleep the night before no matter how hard I tried. Now I can't sleep because there is simply too much to do. Gift-wrapping, cooking, making sure the last of the Christmas cards got out and making sure the snowball cannon is aimed at the neighbors door at the perfect face level.

I remember when I was little and Santa was real and gave me a candy cane. Now I see Santa looking at Sports Illustrated calendars on his lunch break and telling me "it helps the North Pole." Thanks St. Nick, now pardon me while I call Dateline and wash my brain out with something to erase that image out of it.

Common decency needs to return. Hell, so does that..."love" thing too, even though it hasn't exactly worked out for me, dammit, I hope it actually does work out for others. Cause, during ALL times of the year people truly do deserve to be happy. Everyone for the most part should be, save for Mel Gibson and anyone who owns a Lexus.

People are so quick to ignore others just to advance themselves in the world that sometimes I boggles my mind, and i'm guilty of it sometimes too. Sometimes I don't hold a door open for someone and it's something as simple as that that makes me think "is that extra 3 seconds of effort really going to put a dent into my daily schedule?" Simple things, that is all it is.

Now i'm by no means saying lets join hands and sing a rousing chorus of "we are the world." Besides, that jam is way overplayed and what the hell was Dan Aykroyd Doing in that damn video...?! A.D.D. again, sorry.

What i'm saying is...remember that every time you think your hot shit and a badass, which I do on a regular basis, one of the key things to do in keeping that badassery is respect. Not fear. Fear is just life's way of trying to keep you from going for something that you want. Fear does not make you a badass, fear does not make you powerful, it makes you a whimpering little shit, and on one likes whimpering little shits. This is why R2D2 kept trying to ditch C3P0 throughout all 3 real Star Wars movies. He was nothing but afraid of everything the whole damn time.

A person who I know that shall remain nameless leads through treating their peers decently. This person knows peoples weaknesses and their strengths, and knows how best to utilize them for whatever purpose, and people enjoy the company of this person.

Look I realize that to err is to human yes, but it seems like for some reason everyone has gotten stuck in the err phase for far too long and i'm honestly sick of fucking seeing it.

It's fucking Christmas. Just wake up, look at a little kid, look at how its all still fresh for them, and try, at least for a few days to remember what it was like for you when you were that age and if you had a crappy childhood, then maybe you should've stopped reading this about 3 minutes or so ago? I dunno, how slow do you read? Me I'm fairly quick. I'm going off track again...that damn A.D.D. again.

I remember when I was a kid and I used to draw things...nothing that'd make it to an art museum...mainly cars, trucks and baseball stuff. People enjoyed it and didn't question it, and my mother would put it on the fridge. Nowadays if a kid draws a table and chairs, you have 34,435 people psycho-analyzing the kid to find out what he was feeling and why he drew it to determine whether or not he's gonna blow up his house. Maybe he will. Maybe he's just drawing the table and chairs because that is where he wants to plan where to put the dead rat to scare his sister.

People need to stop over thinking what everything feels like and just do something cause it makes us feel warm in our funparts. That is what decency and Christmas should be about. Well maybe not about the warm in the funparts thing...that is unless you're into that. Just make sure it's legal.

I did not think of a fully thought out ending for this because I suck at endings. Honestly I hate them for the most part, except if its a really lame radio commercial. That is why I got Satellite radio in my car...except they have commercials now...that sucks. Oh yeah, endings. I suppose I'll end with this:

Remember that you are stronger then fear. Remember to be decent. And remember that for Christmas I want a nail gun.