This is not an anti-x-mas post . . .

As described in the title. . .
seems to be some controversy about this especial event that makes just everybody love or leave it.
Well, cross yourselves, caths, . . .
I.ve been out on the streets lately hushing for a late x-mas gift (why.s that called a late gift if i purchase it already before ?. . . whatever. . .) and yesterday I met a nice man who had a white beard , some tiny reading-glasses and an incredibly abstract laugh.
Well, I.m neither kidding nor talking about Santa Clause, I mean, it really happened, he´s an artist it seems and I was bound by the paintings he exposed on right there on the streets, in the middle of rush.hour Dortmund.
So I got to talk to him.
What happened the next 15 mins must have been magic.
It was an absolutely insane AND incredible non-sense conversation about the world and everything else, there in the middle of thousands of people that rushed in and out the shops to grab a last minute present.
As it was getting late, I told him I had to go on, but even before I could move he told me to stop and gave me one of his best paintings. I was astonished. It would be the perfect gift, so I insisted in paying.
He told me that I could buy him a christmas-tree instead of that.
So I went out and brought him the best tree I could find that evening. . .
So, whats this all about?
The nice old man is somebody with a free-spirit, I thought as I got home.
I mean, it.s simple. You work, you get paid, the money you earn is worth the afford you.ve had. You use it to buy things that people afforded almost the same way before. This is the vicious circle that made money so incredibly important to us that most of the people can´t see what it.s really standing for anymore, its just metaphor, standing for the hard-work you had.
That nice old men yesterday, who happens to be a wellknown painter (I didn.t know that. . . shame on me) , liked the 15min conversation so much that , in fact, he offered me a piece of his "time", of his effort, for a piece of mine.
"I couldn.t really want it to be in someone else´s hands," he told me.
Wonderful.
There are still genuine people out in the world.
And someone´s getting a 300€ painting this x-mas (my brother, don´t tell, pssss!!!! :P) . . .

So,

Merry Christmas to all of You :D