What are the things that come into your mind when we say “Christmas”? Of course it’s the occasion where even the most cold-hearted person shows generosity and warmth. Aside from generosity and warmth, there is a thing that we should put on one of our hot topics which we can see all around the city, those twinkling, little, electric lights, in short as “light bulb”. When it’s December, we can see trees along the streets covered from head to toe by light bulbs. Some says it’s beautiful but there are hidden facts we want to ignore. People have to remove the light bulbs which wrapped by bulbs because it can be stress people’s eyes, it torments trees and it is a waste of electricity.
To begin with, all of you know about our eyes, and how they get stress. The causes of the eye stress can be some activities that cause you to focus your eyes for long periods of time, and the lights around us. In spite of too much stress caused by sign boards, radiant lights from TVs and computers already, when Christmas season comes people cover the trees with a lot of lights which isn’t beautiful anymore for it adds more stress to the eyes. Also, because of the lights bulbs, drivers sometimes cannot see important traffic sign. We call it light pollution.
In addition, we should discuss about putting light bulbs is that trees are also suffering. Nobody said that Christmas is an occasion that other life forms too should be treated as well like humans but it’s just too selfish for human beings to afflict trees for a moment of romance or art. It is painful for trees to be wrapped around by electric wire and feel the heat of the light bulb. We should be considerate to trees especially on such occasions.
Moreover, economically it is a waste of electricity. Based on what I have said before, it ends up as a waste of electricity. Over a month, around thousands of lights bulbs are lit every night. Unfortunately, it is useless. Actually, people don’t need the lights. Korea is oil-poor. We don’t have oil enough to light the thousands of bulbs around the trees which are arranged along the path.
After few weeks, we will face beautiful and cheerful Christmas. We can enjoy Christmas without light bulbs. If people remove the thousands of light bulbs around the hundreds of trees, people can enjoy more peaceful Christmas. Christmas season is beautiful because it filled with people’s laughing sounds, the bell sounds of the Salvation army not because of the lights bulbs.