Tis’ the season to be jolly! Until you’re given a bad gift. Then it turns into the season to be bawling. (High-five for rhyming that doesn’t quite rhyme! Anyone… anyone?) All of us have felt that awkward moment when receiving an unwanted gift, and the negative feelings that follow. As humans, we tend to place a lot of importance on gifts as an expression of how we feel about one another. Naturally, when receiving a bad gift, we assume the person doesn’t care. People forget the true meaning of Christmas. I, myself, don’t know it, so I checked with Wikipedia. Once you cull the political correctness, it states:

Christmas is a time when Christians and non-Christians celebrate Christ by emptying their wallets in the name of world economy.

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Last week I thought to myself, “wow hot weather is finally here! I should really hit the gym.” Enthusiastically, I put on my shorts, Sonic t-shirt and gym shoes — but then – SpongeBob SquarePants came on. It was the irresistibly cute episode where SpongeBob is dissatisfied with his weak, girly arms, and feels inferior to beefcake, Larry the Lobster. After pushing himself at the gym and achieving precisely nothing, SpongeBob gives up and resorts to fake muscles to fool people into believing he’s gone from weedy to buff in a matter of days. Personally, I think steroids would’ve been more convincing, but can you really imagine little ol’ SpongeBob roid-raging? He’d probably bite that poor starfish’s head right off. (I talk about SpongeBob like I know him personally and that’s not at all weird). SpongeBob’s attempts to deceive are finally foiled, as he learns the truth never stays hidden for long. His ball-breaker friend, Sandy, the underwater squirrel, is adamant in convincing him to accept himself for the weedy loser that he is, else he make the situation worse by trying to think independently.

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