On Christmas Eve, exactly seven years after his death, the ghost of Jacob Marley visited his former business partner Ebenezer Scrooge. Marley’s tortured ghost walked the earth for eternity wrapped in ponderously heavy metal chains he had forged in life by his greed and lack of empathy for his fellow man. His mission was to warn Ebenezer; tell him his chain would be twice as heavy, for his greed and cruel indifference to the suffering of others was even greater. Marley and three spirits tell Ebenezer it is not too late to mend his callous, hateful ways.
In the end, Charles Dickens timeless tale of spirit and redemption “A Christmas Carrol,” gives us all hope as Scrooge is redeemed, gives generously to the less fortunate and promises to keep Christmas in his heart all the year.
There is still time for you to make things right. So as a public service I offer this very incomplete list of people who have already forged a chain so ponderous it makes Jacob Marley’s look like a medical alert bracelet:
- Those who intentionally harm others.
- People who are cruel to animals.
- People who deny a helping hand to someone in need.
- Whomever ate Ross Geller’s turkey sandwich dipped in the “Moist-Maker.”
- Racists, white supremacists, Fox News hosts past & present.
- Child abusers, bullies, book-burners and gun nuts.
- Greedy, sociopathic, self-aggrandizing pond scum (aka Politicians).
- Those who deny rights or harm others based on their religious beliefs.
- Men over the age of 15 that wear their baseball caps backwards.
I’ll admit there are a few on the list that would benefit from a slap on the wrist rather than eternal suffering. But we live in a fast-paced, one size fits all world. Send them all in for a fitting. Plenty of chains to go around.