Finally, Christmas is over. Twelve more months before I am subjected to endless repeats of Christmas music, Christmas movies, and Christmas cheer.
Don’t get me wrong. I like the holiday season well enough. I just don’t like having to listen to nothing but Christmas music all day long from December 1st to December 26th. They turn the radio station at work onto a station that plays NOTHING ELSE 24/7. It’s enough to make you pull your ears off!
And a couple of members of my family LOVES the movies. Classics. Classics are old. Old means you’ve seen them already for 30+ years. And if they aren’t Classics, they’re remakes. Bad remakes usually. I consider the season a success if I get through it without having to watch a single solitary one of them. That means I have to make myself scarce at my mom’s.
A shame because I love my mom. I just can’t stand A Christmas Story or It’s a Wonderful Life.
Which brings me to the false cheer. If you didn’t like me in November, I don’t buy that you suddenly like me in December because come January you don’t like me again.
The Christmas season seems to make even the most honest of people into liars. We tell our children to be honest and then convince them that Santa is real. We convince ourselves that Jesus was born on Dec 25th when we haven’t a clue. We portray 3 wise men at his manger when an UNKNOWN number of wise men went to visit him an unspecified time later in a house.
Christmas has been a lie since the beginning when Catholics took over a PAGAN festival and tweaked it in order to convert them into Catholicism. It wasn’t about Jesus’ birth at all. It was about converting unbelievers to the “truth’ with a LIE. Unbelievable when you truly think about it. How do you convert people to the Truth when telling Lies?
From there it became commercialized. Now its more about the price tag of the gift rather than even the false front of religion. We spend money we don’t have on people we don’t like because ‘it’s the nice thing to do’ or is it really that we don’t want people to think badly of us?
Personally, if I don’t like you, I don’t like you. I work too hard for what little money I have to spend it on someone I don’t even like.
And where is all the HOLIDAY SPIRIT when people are being trampled to death in order for you to get a good deal on a present? People are actually being killed at Christmas Sales!! How materialistic can you get? Is that what a person’s life is worth? A couple hundred bucks off a TV?
When did we all get so off track? When did what we have become so much more important than who and what we are?
Beautiful article. I also have problems with Christmas, considering that it’s blown out of proportions, and no one talks about the bad stuff that happens… I still don’t know why though, but perhaps people truly wish to hang onto the lie of pretending to be cheerful, and of course i know that there truly are some honestly cheerful people out there.