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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 2803858" data-attributes="member: 99">The point?  Tradition!  People hate change, even if what they're changing to is better than what they're changing from.  Nowhere is this more evident than Holiday Traditions.  I cite:  The Fruitcake.  How many families insist on making one of these horrid monstrosities that nobody wants to take a bite of (except perhaps as the result of a rousing Christmas Night game of Truth or Dare while drinking the rest of the rum) when there are plenty of tasty confections they could be making instead.I am in no way arguing against Nellisir's decision.  But, as Kahuna Burger points out, Christmas is caught up in all sorts of magical thinking that make it even more prone to people viewing the entire affair with rose colored glasses.  Nellisir is bravely taking on the role of informing the rest of the group that things are bad and unlikely to improve and therefore need to change.  I suspect that he'll suffer the fate of most bearers of ill tidings.What Nellisir really needs is a sacrificial goat.  Kind of like my sister.  She's pragmatic like me but has more of a temper and a lower tolerance threshold.  Fortunately my family gets along well with each other most of the time.  But when they don't you can bet that my sister will be the one to (rightly) kick over the house of cards.  Then everybody gets irritated with her (I fake it a bit) but as the dust settles, I'll say, "She does have a bit of a point though..." and the conversation can begin in earnest.Sister = Goat, Rel = Hero (a cowardly shell of a man but a Hero nonetheless <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />)</blockquote>

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