Here we go with the insanity again…

It seems that businesses will not allow consumers to breathe. One celebration barely gone that decorations and merchandise is already up the shelves. Barely out of New Year’s, stores are all up with Valentine’s Day stuff. The tons of chocolate ingested are still moving around our bowels that Easter is already following. And so on, and so forth. You go out there and you see it everywhere.

The latest thing has been promoting Christmas the day after Halloween! Never mind Thanksgiving, let’s get the carols going and start advertising heavily on TV! People have to be reminded that there’s lots of money to be spent now!

But what absolutely infuriated me was to see a house in the neighborhood all lit up with Christmas lights and decorations. Thanksgiving is still a week away!!! Why can’t people wait? Is there a secret competition going on to see who will be the first to have their stuff up?

I do go out the weekend after Thanksgiving to get our Christmas tree but I absolutely refuse to join the madness. Resist the temptation too!

Till then…

Holding the lit match

There are times in life where you wish you’d be kept away from some things. Times where you become the involuntary accomplice in something that could have so many consequences for a whole bunch of people.

I recently got caught in the middle of a conversation where a young and attractive woman has been under heavy scrutiny and pressure lately that it almost seems as harassment. And I feel very tempted to add, sexual harassment. All the ingredients are there: the young subordinate woman; the older, married and respectable superior and a certain tension that can end either nastily or by some way of defeat.

Very unfortunately, she seems to be clueless of why she is being submitted to such a harsh treatment, especially since it is absolutely not her fault if things are not quite working out smoothly. She does not even seem to realize that it does not have much to do about her performance at work but maybe she is too naive to believe that he, being an older, married and otherwise man of trust, would have such views and ideas about her. Or, maybe it’s just my imagination running wild. In any case, I do not know both parties well enough to know who’s right and who’s wrong, and quite unfortunately, I am pretty good in reading people’s intentions.

On one hand, I want to talk to her and make her open her eyes, but on the other hand, is it really my business? Should I be doing something about it or should I just STFU and let things be? She does have an opportunity to move elsewhere and be unhappy because loves her work, but I think it’s admitting defeat. On the other side, it means peace and quiet in a new place, it can be beneficial but that also implies making some sacrifices. Those choices are up to her.

Still, I am very undecided on what to do.

Till then…