How to survive Black Friday!

There are plenty of websites out there with tips on how to get through Black Friday. They tell you how:

• Plan your route first
• Make a list
• Decide what you want before you enter the scrum
• Don’t be distracted
• Prepare to wait
• Stay calm
• Take water and supplies
• Be prepared to use physical violence and shout at everyone.

Okay I made that last one up but it happens anyway. Interestingly none of the Black Friday websites offer this important advice:

DON’T DO BLACK FRIDAY!

Watching all those sad people desperately fighting over flat screen TV’s has a look of the ‘end of days’.

You can imagine future generations sitting around campfires in deserted shopping malls telling stories about Black Friday. It was a time when the human race finally fell flat on its face into a pile of consumer crap nobody really needed.

There is good reason why it’s called Black Friday. Everyone dies a little.

So here are my tips for avoiding Black Friday.

• Go out with friends

• Read a book or catch up on a film (not Spectre though. It was rubbish)

• Help your kids

• Take the dog out.

• Stay in bed.

• Don’t watch the TV news and stay off the Internet.

You can do any of these or maybe all of them.

You might also have time to think about the following:

• Decide to be happy with what you already have.
• You are free. Only believe what you know to be true for yourself (old yoga science)
• Humans Beings are made for giving not taking.
• When you have more than you need someone else has less than they need.
• The more stuff you think you need the bigger the hole in your life/head/heart…