Saturday, November 15, 2008
Thanksgiving!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Well I wanted to post a little frustration I have with this holiday season. I love the holidays and like many others, CHRISTMAS is my FAVORITE! You can't beat having a long break from school to go home and spend time with your family while shopping for amazing gifts, having fancy dinners, getting Christmas Eve jamies...and the list goes on. It is by far my favorite holiday, but my frustration is that we have the whole HOLIDAY season starting from Halloween through New Years and every other holiday gets over looked. I want to celebrate Thanksgiving without the christmas lights up, the christmas trees decorated, or christmas music on the radio and in every store! People start celebrating Christmas in October and it drives me crazy. For me I like to celebrate every holiday to the fullest and then THE DAY AFTER Thanksgiving is when the Christmas celebration begins! I mean I am all about having the Christmas spirit the whole year through, but lets keep all the decorations down until we have finished with the other holidays. My birthday is the week before Thanksgiving and I love my birthday and Thanksgiving and I feel they get overshadowed with this Christmas stuff. :) Let's celebrate Thanksgiving, fall, our country, and everything we're thankful for this time of year before we hop into winter and Christmas. I am Thankful for Thanksgiving and that not only do we have amazing food, but we get to have a holiday weekend to celebrate what we're thankful for! THEN BRING ON CHRISTMAS!!
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No kidding. I think the problem is the stores. Everyone knows that they sell more during the Christmas season so they start selling stuff as soon as it gets cold outside. Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays and it does get drowned out by Christmas.
I see your point, Heather, but part of me likes the idea of lengthening the end-of-the-year holidays. I'm not speaking of the commercial aspect, which is what you seem to be responding to (Thanksgiving, Hannukah, Christmas shouldn't be about commercialism, anyway). You are right about that. But haven't you noticed that people are a lot nicer this time of year? You can call it the holiday spirit, or Christmas spirit, or a lot of other things, but regardless of what we call it, I really enjoy it. We've been talking a lot lately about the impersonal, detached nature of our community, but I don't feel that way this time of year. I feel like people step outside of themselves and actually look around, and they think about reaching out to others. If we could extend THAT feeling and THAT mindset out a little longer, I'd be very pleased.
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