If younger people are sending fewer cards and shunning wrapping paper,it may be because they know there’s more to giving than appearancesSince early life crawled out of the sludge and decided it would like to continue crawling, prising shiny shells open to gain to their inner goodness (fruit/seeds/viscera) has been an unbreakable habit for the living – we can’t wait on it. We admire opening things; banana peels, and packets of biscuits,envelopes that leer like they don’t acquire bills in them. And so comes Christmas with shiny boxes to be opened, full of promised goodness for our continuing survival; in many cases, or instead of life-giving nutrients,it’s regifted candles from the neighbours. But even now, away from the primordial grime, or the message of “this looks good,it might contain good things if I open it whirrs away in our lizard brains.
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Source: theguardian.com