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Dear Santa, will you be dropping by this year?

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I was probably about six years old and I know from television that Santa likes cookies with milk. So I set out a plate with a couple of cookies and a small cup of milk, when I felt my parents weren’t looking. I didn’t want to have to explain to them why I did that. I didn’t have the words for it, though I knew in my heart, I had to do it. Since Santa Claus was made aware to me as a child, I had written ‘Dear Santa’ letters to him hoping he would gift me something nice. Alas, I always received things from people I knew that weren’t from Santa Claus.

This thought came to me earlier today, as I was gathering my cups before heading down to the kitchen. My wife remarked, “Can I go down to the kitchen with you?” in her girly squeaky voice. This is her way of being cute with me. So I responded, “No, you have to climb up to the roof top and signal Santa down to us.” I mumbled some thoughts to myself afterwards, “Maybe he won’t miss our house this time around.”

So my question is, “What does it take to get on Santa’s Good Person list?”

Thinking back all 37 years of my life so far, I have not received a single gift from Santa Claus. Well, that one time when I was 12 sitting on the Fake Santa’s lap at my dad’s company’s Christmas banquet didn’t quite count. While I was nervous lining up to sit on Fake Santa’s lap, I was looking forward to the big present waiting for me at the end of the photo ordeal. It was a set of Nerf ping pong stuff. My brother got the exact same stuff.

Anyway, what does it take to get on Santa’s Good Person list? What must a person do or be to be considered a good person? If I measure how good I am based on the amount and size of the gifts I have received from Santa in the last 36 years of my life, then I score pretty badly. I have failed every year since December 1979 as a good person.

Satire aside however, I have never really wondered whether I am a good person or not. I haven’t even once said to someone that I am a good person. I am pretty sure I haven’t even said I ‘think’ I am a good person. At the end of each day, I think the only things that really matter to me isn’t if I have been a good person, but rather, someone who hasn’t done too much harm, but that in itself is more like a subtle back-of-the-mind whisper of a thought, rather than a conscious active thought process.

Though I am still curious as to how goodness is measured on Santa’s gift list. Also, if he has evolved his work environment to the latest technologies and safer work stations for his elves.

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Concepts from Leemanism has as little filtering as possible. These concepts are not reflected in the people I value and are associated with. People who accept me, adhere to the parts where we are compatible and tolerate the parts where we are not. So however people perceive me to be, ultimately it obviously doesn't mean the people I mention in this blog are the same as me. It means it's possible they are similar or the same, as well as different than me. It is highly unusual for people to be completely compatible with each other. It is also highly unusual for people to be fully supportive of each other, even if they say they do.

Common society expects self-respect to be a concept you enforce on yourself, while solely adhering to what common society dictates as being right. However, self-respect in fact, is doing what pleases you, while not permitting others to disrespect you, and when they do, you cut them out of your life. Don't let common society gaslight you into believing the self-respect you have for yourself should be dictated by common society's views on morality. Self-respect is the individual's right to live as they desire - not what common society deems as acceptable. Too often, people succumb to the weight of the world, dismissing their individual value, to try to fit in and be accepted. If you are the type of person who tries to fit in with common society, under the fantasy you are also an unique 'weird' person of your own thoughts, then I dare say, you're delusional. Everyone says they rather be weird, but when challenged, they retreat back into their social shells, doing everything they can to deflect self accountability.

That's utterly boring.

However, at the same time, I also understand that some people must do what they must do to protect themselves, before the law of the land and before common society try to lynch them for what they are. Even if your ideals may be right, society will more often than not, deem you wrong - even most of your friends may side with society, than protect you.

So with that said, we are few. Stay safe. (•̀ᵥᵥ•́)

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