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Because Here’s What’s Wild: it Costs Nothing to be NASTY.
Holiday spirit starts with not being an asshole.
Why Is Everyone the Grinch This Year?
And I can be a fucking Biych too!
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but why is everyone acting like the holiday spirit personally wronged them this year? I mean like completely fisted them up the ass & down their throats.
Everywhere I go coffee shops, post office, texts/ Emails, the literal grocery store, people are fuckingg rude! Not “having a bad day” mean. I mean actively rude, eye-rolling at kindness, allergic to warmth, acting like basic decency is cringe. When did being nice become embarrassing? When did supporting your friends turn into something you do quietly, in private, like a guilty pleasure?
Somewhere along the line, sarcasm replaced sincerity and now everyone’s terrified of looking like they care. Being excited is “doing too much.” Hyping your friends is “try hard.” Saying thank you, smiling at a stranger, or showing up consistently? Apparently lame. We’re all supposed to be aloof, detached, and mildly annoyed at all times, I mean I am! But now, I have wanted to change that tune with how others can affect a mood,
especially in December. I’m not that cold hearted and love to feel light heartd & dare I say Jolly?
And listen, I get it. The year’s been long. Everyone’s tired. Money’s weird. The world is loud. But when did exhaustion turn into a personality trait? When did we decide that being cold was cooler than being kind?
We’re all just trying to survive right now. Everyone is carrying something you can’t see, stress, grief, money stuff, burnout, loneliness, uncertainty. No one is cruising. No one has it fully figured out. We’re all just doing our best to get through the week without losing it in a Fred Meyer parking lot.
Which is exactly why being warm matters more than ever. You don’t know what someone walked in with that day. You don’t know what kind of year they’ve had, or how close they are to their breaking point. A little kindness doesn’t fix everything, but it can make the load lighter and that counts.
I want it to be normal where being welcoming isn’t seen as naïve. Where supporting the people you love isn’t “uncool.” Where strangers don’t treat each other like inconveniences(OKAY but there are situations people fucking suck & that I still stand on). Radical idea, I know. So yes, I will continue to be warm. I will continue to hype my friends publicly and unapologetically. I will smile at strangers and mean it ..when I do it, I will choose softness in a season where everyone’s cosplaying the Grinch and that’s getting old and lowkey sad.
Holiday spirit doesn’t have to mean caroling or forced cheer or pretending everything’s perfect. It can just mean NOT being an asshole. It can mean holding the door. Sending the text. Liking your friend’s post without irony. Saying “that’s cool, I’m proud of you” and actually meaning it.
xoxo
The Spicy Grinch