Missing Sears

          Sears is down to its last 24 hours.

          Excuse me while I throw something against a wall.

          Okay, that didn’t help.  Let me punch a wall.

          *OUCH!!!!*

          That’s better, well it’s not but you get what I mean.  Since I can’t punch Eddie Lampert this helps.  I’m sure all of you know, since this store is on life support, that Eddie Lampert is the man who literally ran Sears/Kmart into the ground and he’s going to walk away with a lot of money.  To tell you the truth, thanks to Trump’s tax cut it might even be more money than what people think but guess what?

          There is nothing we can do about it.  It’s, literally, too late.

          Everyone, in a sense, is to blame for the demise of Sears.  Everyone got a little to punch drunk on Amazon and fell into that millenial trap of, ‘ew malls are stupid.’  Yes America, I said it.  Millenials are responsible for a lot of this, them and Eddie Lampert gave Sears a fatal blow and dammit I am steamed.

          Society is getting scary anymore with its sense of isolationism.  Maybe that’s why a lot of idiots jump up and down for Trump but who knows.  Back to society’s isolationism, it is terrifying.  Malls were such a great place of socialization, at one time, but now a lot of people are left with nowhere to go.  I don’t get why people think that something like Sears disappearing is a good thing.  The bargains on Amazon won’t stay and anything at Walmart is going to skyrocket.  As a matter of fact, the prices are out of control there now.  The trouble is that a lot of you haven’t seen it yet because you’re still starry-eyed over the online pricing world. 

          The point about all of this is that you’re not going to appreciate Sears until it’s gone.  You’re going to miss it big time.  Sure, a lot of you millenials won’t but damn you Gen-Xers will. The loss of Sears, an iconic store, is going to leave an emptiness that a lot of people will, eventually, grieve over.  Sears was the symbol of easy-to-get to stylish living but now it’s starting to represent how we’ve all lost its way.  All of us are sinking away from one thing that made humanity great- human contact.  Computers have made us impatient, greedy and downright selfish.  They’ve allowed a certain few to gain a lot of money while taking away anchors in our everyday world.  Yes, Sears needs a miracle to survive and it’s doubtful that it’s going to get one, but damn-I’ll miss it.

          And you will too, eventually….