Well Its About Damn Time

It also means wearing things they might not approve of. Using accommodations that they might not think you need. Not falling for their guilt trips. Eating when you’re hungry, not when it suits them and their idea of your weight or health. Making your own friends instead of seeking the stamp of approval from them.

Of course, some parents are stricter than others, and some use abuse to keep you from expressing yourself. But do what you can, even if it seems small.

Otherwise, when your parents are no longer in the picture, you’ll try to find it somewhere else to get validation. A strict boss, an abusive partner, a selfish friend.

2026 will be my year and that is a threat

Scrooge was not cartoonishly evil. He was not a mustache twirling villain who delighted in cruelty for its own sake. He was not out there kicking puppies or dumping water on the poor for fun. He was a miser, yes, but more importantly, he was comfortable. He lived securely within a system that worked for him, and because it worked for him, he assumed it must be working as intended.

He thought poverty was simply how the world worked. Tragic, perhaps, but natural. Like bad weather or illness or old age. Unfortunate, but not something he was personally responsible for addressing. And because it was not his responsibility, it was not his problem.

And that is the point.

That mindset was enough to warrant a supernatural intervention. The failure is not active cruelty, it is passive indifference. It is looking around at suffering and deciding it is inevitable. It is believing that kindness is optional if you have technically fulfilled your obligations.

But making him cartoonishly villainous makes the story easier to swallow. It creates distance. It lets the audience point and laugh, or scold, or feel morally superior. That kind of Scrooge is obviously not us. He is too exaggerated, too cruel, too ridiculous to be relatable. And that's comforting.

this man has lived and breathed and danced and sung for 100 years and he still feels like he's not done and wants many more years

Do we count this as a passive rickroll?