Allan “Grinchmas Is Wild” Muir

Realizing What the Reason for The Season TRULY Is

So, for the first 18 years of my life, I realized I was very self-absorbed and greedy. All I cared about was getting gifts no matter what they were.  Well, I noticed that over the years I did not really begin to care about whether or not I got the BIGGEST, COOLEST, or most expensive gift. I started to care more about getting gifts for my family and getting my Christmas high: seeing the look on family members’ faces when they realized what I got them.

To tie into “Realizing What the Reason for The Season Truly Is” I, need to flashback to Christmas 2019 which was the second Christmas without my brother’s wife and my niece’s mother. I was in a bit of a personal crisis since the start of December 2019 which would lead to my quarter-life Pokemon crisis in 2020.

But before Christmas 2019 I thought it would be a no-brainer decision to get my niece a Nintendo Switch. Due to wanting her to not play her Switch at all times, I made sure to get her a Switch Lite which can be agreed to be the version of the Switch you cannot actually dock with a TV. The look on my niece’s face when she opened the Switch Lite and the Switch version of Minecraft I got her will forever be on my mental wall. Ever since then my focus has been less on “What Will I Get?” and more on “What Can I Get For Someone Else”.