https://didacticmind.com/2017/05/ultimate-cost-for-perfect-value.html Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Sat, 29 Aug 2020 20:31:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://didacticmind.com/2017/05/ultimate-cost-for-perfect-value.html#comment-2635 Tue, 30 May 2017 02:12:34 +0000 #comment-2635 I work in the back end (heh) of a very large retail store. Memorial Day is not a day of celebration, but fear: it's one of our busiest days of the year. Same with the 4th, and the whole Christmas season. If we really gave a shit about honoring anybody, only gas stations would be open. Years in retail have rendered holidays meaningless to me. I feel nothing about any of them anymore. But I can remember a time when that wasn't the case. Maybe that came from simply being a kid (where everything is a huge deal), maybe I'm jaded and being nostalgic, or maybe we really used to care at one time. I don't know. But I find myself really wishing these days mattered more to people than they actually do.

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