Nothing in this world is FREE!

Gifts...Gift's can be defined in many different ways.  In the American society, we have actual days of the year that we all expect gifts.  Christmas and birthdays are the worst.  We are suppose to be celebrating "life" but instead we all want to kill ourselves because we feel obligated to use all our hard earned money on someone we care about, then we suffer for awhile to get our lives back on track.  In my opinion, I would rather not receive anything because we all know that the other person is expecting something back.  If we don't get them anything, then well....they are somewhat sad and start throwing a fit because of what they didn't get. Give me a break.  I do believe in getting people gifts that they can use everyday or that is very practical.  We spend so much time trying to out-spend each other but we always, always, always, forget what the true meaning of it all is.  I believe that "Kwanzaa" is the way to go.  Kwanzaa is an African American and Pan-African holiday celebrated between Christmas and New Year.  Reason being, you celebrate Christmas without any materialistic things interrupting your day, you only give gifts if you can afford them so you don't put yourself in a jam, the dates between Christmas and New Year are so you hit the sales that all the department stores have, and finally you only buy gifts that are useful in educating the mind, body, and soul of an individual.  It's clean cut and dry and to the point.  That's just my opinion though.  Even when your parents buy you a toy when you are little that involves sports, for instance, they still expect you to use whatever they bought so they can see some form of progression.  That is still not FREE.  There is no such thing as an unselfish good deed.  We still feel better about ourselves in the end!