It's The Holidays

If you’ve ever read this blog, you should know that I’m not religious. At all. Because like politics, I’ll still be wrong. I choose Christianity, I’m wrong. I choose Judaism, I’m wrong. I choose Islam, I’m wrong... but I still want to show my respect for calling Christmas “Christmas”. And I’m such a grammar perfectionist, that it doesn’t matter, anyway.

I’m getting older. I’m almost 18. I got a feeling this has to do with my more humble, not even humble, feelings for what I want for Christmas this year. I mean, last year was an exception, as being a natural gamer, all I wanted was a Playstation 3, and I’m set for life. And I got it. And I am set. So... now what?

Maybe LittleBigPlanet PSP, or Gran Turismo 5? A mic for my online involvement on the Playstation Network? Meh, Gran Turismo 5 would be nice. But it’s nothing of importance. I mean, these are just things. It’d be nice, but I’d still have to focus on other more important things.

This Christmas break has me working on my Senior Project, bulking up, getting a few things that I actually need... that’s just about it. Maybe I’m getting more lazy and boring than ever, or maybe I’m learning to live with myself? ...

I feel as we grow older, we better differentiate our needs and wants, to what is necessarily possible, and what is either possible or impossible:

NEEDS

- Eggnog.

- Apply to colleges.

- Update accounts online.

- A job.

- Either a better mattress, or move to the guestroom bed, where softness and dusty cockroaches await me.

- Finish this Senior Project.

- Bulk up.

- Better organization for my return second semester, and future events and life.

- This marijuana legalization support wristband from up in Canada.

- College money.

- A good camera (Sony Cybershot camera, preferred)

- Sleep, and someone to rest with on this bed with.

- Reach level 53 on Uncharted 2 multiplayer.

- Better clothes.

- Time to relax and write on my blog more efficiently.

WANTS

- Eggnog

- Sony Cybershot camera

- GT5

- Joe Danger from the PSN

- LBP for PSP

- The *new* Sony Ericcson Z1 PSP/phone hybrid thing that won’t lose rumor heat anytime soon.

- Sleep, and someone to rest on this bed with.

Some of the needs on the list are not really possible (yet), but that’s me, and that’s a different story. And as for the wants, it’s just material. Not the last one, I don’t necessarily want a material girl on my bed, but that’s also a different story, too. So... what do I want for Christmas this year, realistically and money-wise?

I can single a lot of the wants out, not because of realism or money, but attention of interest.

...

Meh... getting the wristband would be a big plus for me.

We better differentiate our needs and wants, from where you’re the infant who will take whatever your hands can get to,‘til you become my dad, where you just don’t want to spend any money at all and you loathe hearing a word having to do with the holidays except a bonus from government field he works at. A bonus he won’t get because of politics. Poor guy.

I honestly just don’t know, and more so don’t care. I’m satisfied with what I got. I feel that’s more important. Appreciate what I got. I got friends, family, wifi, eggnog, my wisdom teeth out, and most of all, I have my conscience to make myself a better person (good luck to me).

Ya know, for 17, I’ve really grown up, give or take.

- Ant