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I always enjoy the aesthetic of Christmas lights in neighborhoods, town and city centers, etc, probably disproportionate to the amount I’m even into the holiday of Christmas.

I’m always bummed when January rolls around, just as winter is really getting started, and all the lights come down (other than that one neighbor we all have, haha). Christmastime is mostly late fall, other than four days. So we’ve blown our wad here in the first week of winter.

Where I'm from, winter sucks. It’s cold, it’s slippery, and snow is nice for a couple of hours and then it becomes a dirty, slushy mess. These are the times when I wish I had the pick-me-up of Christmas lights, but they’re usually gone by the time real winter weather comes along.

So…. what if we switched it up a little? What if Christmastime just kind of ushered in “Winter Lights” season, people could decorate as they currently do, but just everyone does it, whether you do Christmas or not. Then, after Christmas, we just leave it up the rest of winter, but you take down the Santas and the reindeer and anything else specific to Christmas. I just think it would be cool to keep those good feelings rolling all the way through March.

Now, I don’t know how this plays out in warmer climates, or the Southern Hemisphere, I haven’t thought it all the way through yet, lmao.

But yeah, what would you all think about lights all winter?

A few nights ago I had a good conversation with a Uber driver on my ride home after listening to some live Christmas music downtown. I honestly was depressed I couldn’t find a girl to go with me. But it’s a personal tradition to listen to Christmas jazz. I am glad I went anyway

Anyway about the conversation. The Uber driver was a younger guy in his 20s who used to run a contractor business but it went under during covid and he drives Ubers full time. He told me he completely given up on dating and doesn’t use social media or dating apps. He has been single for 4 years. He wasn’t some overweight slob either. Not a trouble maker. Decent looking young light skinned African American man. Seems like some girl would appreciate him but he quit.

Anyway we both shared experiences about how we both once out in a lot of effort into dating that was very under-appreciated by women and then quit. There was a study done that over 60% of men under 30 are single now.

However most young women who answered this survey claimed to not be single. Either they are (or a combination of) 1) dating older men 2) in causal relationship they claim “is a relationship” when the man feels differently 3) not in a relationship at all but lying about (virtual “relationships” are complete bs)

Anyway let’s forget about men for a second. How are young women dealing with all of this? They are supposed to be more “free and empowered” but are they really happy in modern times? Statistically young women are reporting very high rates of depression:

https://www.wfxrtv.com/news/health/depression-rates-skyrocket-women-and-young-adults-hit-hardest-gallup-poll/amp/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/252323/major-depressive-episode-among-us-youths-by-gender-since-2004/

My theory is young women have been indoctrinated in a lot of modern feminism brainwashing that brings them a lot of short term benefits but long term misery.