Lynda Lin Grigsby: Why the overabundance of the gift-giving season causes me discomfort. - NBCNewsTHINK
The excesses of gift-giving culture feels like coming to a buffet after a long period of hunger. At best, it’s overwhelming, and at worst, it’s nauseating.When bedroom doors fly open on Christmas morning, my kids drink in a vision of a picture-perfect Christmas — an explosion of bright colors and shiny coils of ribbons in meticulously wrapped presents. Family members amble through the front door with more gifts, so the kids form a gift-opening assembly line that starts from youngest to oldest.
The Christmases of my early childhood passed just like any other day for our family of five, trying to find economic and social stability after a disjointed journey from war-torn Vietnam to a refugee camp in Malaysia, where I was born in the late 1970s. In my childhood one-bedroom home, Christmas morning was accompanied by the staccato whirring of my mom’s Juki sewing machine, which she used to sew notched jacket lapels or to attach shoulder pads to blazers.
“I’m sorry,” my 7-year-old says, not able to fathom the possibility of a Christmas without gifts. “I’m sorry that happened to you.” But my past also richly informs my present. I get to instill more nuanced definitions of holiday traditions in my kids. I want them to be fluent in the languages of both want and abundance. In our home today, we have frequent conversations about the difference between a “want” and a “need” and acknowledge that these feelings can feel similar in the face of the gleaming objects of desire at the store.
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