As the holiday season is well underway, I can think of no greater example of impersonal dribble as wishing someone ‘happy holidays’. What does that even mean?
If someone is Christian, shouldn’t they be wished a merry Christmas? If they are Jewish shouldn’t they have been wished a happy Hanukkah two weeks ago? Don’t even wish someone a happy Ramadan as it passed months ago and is not about happiness that way. Perhaps a happy Kwanzaa might be more appropriate for some this week.
What is this rant about? Get to know who you are talking to beyond the superficial fear of being politically incorrect. Wishing someone happy holidays is phoning it in (yes, I don’t like waiters singing happy birthday to me, either).
There are people I wish happy holidays to also, and that is my internal clue that I don’t know them well enough. When I know someone well enough to wish them a happy Setsubun, then good things tend to happen.
Feckless
1 ineffective; incompetent; futile.
2 having no sense of responsibility; indifferent; lazy.
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