I hate musicals, they make me want to find a long pointy thing to pierce my eardrums and poke my eyes out. It's not the case with Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas, a masterpiece of atmosphere and animation. What makes Nightmare Before Christmas so revealing to me is the way it shows people inside out, with the monsters outside and the goodness inside. While our society advertises good looking Botox® faces, big silicone boobs and perfect white teeth, what makes the news are the monsters inside, when they come out and commit weirdness or atrocities.
Being born with the social Kryptonite called "Sensitivity", I can tell it comes along with a special X-Ray vision allowing me to see the monster inside people - even inside myself, much like everyone can see them in Tim Burton's masterpiece. Some of these hideous selves, we soon will have to face them in crowds, either in malls, office parties or family gatherings, while trying to go through the most pressuring, expensive period of the year.
For sensitive people, Christmas is way more frightening than Halloween. During that Christmas rush, give people your best smile, give them a little bit of your time or even just some more breathing space, so they feel that even the most estranged freaks are worth of attention.
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