Yesterday I attempted to finish off the Christmas shopping as well as top off our household supplies. This is a regular routine, almost always taken at the same time of day at the same places.
Yet the feeling was very different. People just wanted to talk, strangers waving to strangers, the check-out clerks were cheerful, and I didn't go from store to store so much as from conversation to conversation. I think it added an hour to my errands, but I didn't notice it.
I mentioned this to my daughter, who said she was observing the same thing while out and about. She attributed it to the election. "Normal people have realized that they are actual the majority, and don't have to be afraid anymore. I haven't had a single person say 'Happy Holidays,' it's all 'Merry Christmas!'"
I think that a spiritual oppression has been lifted, and this is how most people (who still see the world in secular materialist ways) are responding the only way they know how – by being more friendly and outgoing.
Chateau Lloyd 
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