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Christmas just ISN'T CHRISTMAS

The time of giving is soon approaching, but too soon? It seems that every year Christmas starts to peer through earlier than the last. Halloween has just past, Thanksgiving is up around the bend, but somehow Christmas sneaks its nose through the door of every store and shop before October even says goodbye. The stench of commercialism is high in the air, and it wafts freely from fir to fir. Visions of Santa Claus hohoho pure joy in the season of supposed selflessness. We all worship the Universal God of Sales- jelly belly bouncing in ecstatic glee to the rhythm of a cash register. Meals and occasional laughter are shared, but after all the wrapping is in the garbage and the ham is in the fridge, is it in good fun?

The mall barely advertises for Halloween. Thanksgiving gets no attention. Turkey Day isn't important to mall employees at all, except for a day off to get fat with the family then sweat it off amongst angry housewives with shopping bags their next shift. The day after Thanksgiving may as well be considered National American Middle-Class Shopping Day, all though it's popularly recognized as the bowel-quaking “Black Friday.” The cars crowd dangerously into aisle after aisle of taken shopping mall parking spots. A thick smog of mint Frappucino coats the walls. No one with a nut allergy is safe in the cloud of praline filling the halls. Women fight over shoes. Children run amok. Men waiting in line at the service desk get in fights in front of their toddlers. What moves people to be such a way? Surely not the mild mannered spirit of Old Saint Nick!

Whatever happened to Jesus? Not everyone in America is a Christian anymore, which may have declined the sales of Nativity sets. The spirit of giving could no longer be tied to this amazing prophet. The Dutch, centuries before in an attempt to educate children on goodness, named their Patron Saint of Children- Sinterklaas- as the seasonal gift-giver. Little did the Dutch know, years later, a revamped Sinter Klass posing as a man named Claus would embellish a series of seasonal items, ready to please all ethnicities, ages, and creeds! The Christmas hype has packaged Dutch tradition into generic American boxes shipped from China. Sadly, all of the other religions in the United States are scarcely represented in such a way. There is not a sign of the much ignored Kwanzaa or Hanukkah imagery on green and red sprinklings of television ads, and any other holiday is equally as disregarded. One rarely bears witness to Boxing Day, which is just as foreign as the former. The pressure on America as a culture to maintain a Christian-based regime through the years has been a deterrent for the knowledge of seasonal celebrations spreading.

When asking any child on the street, “What is your favorite holiday?” will most likely answer back, toothless smile grinning, “CWISMASS!” If the child is young enough, it's possible to ask, “And what is Christmas about?” To this, they will reply, “PWEZENTS!” This fictional hero in a sleigh, Santa Claus, this imposter has created a list of the good and the bad; how is he to check it even twice if the list does not exist? So it turns out, year after year, every child is “good” in the eyes of “Santa Claus” ...just as long as his parents have the money. One would think that the fine reward of a gift would teach a child the art of giving, but instead the presents get more complicated and the wish-lists get longer (or more expensive) each year. The inability of parents to communicate the actual cost and work put into achieving their little ones' dreams just applies more stress to the shopping. Children go on disregarding the true religious nature of the holiday season and forget to revel in the tiny things that can be regarded as universal gifts, such as kindness, family, and generosity. Christmas has made the world today and generations of the future seasonally selfish.

Christmas may still be holy in some hearts and celebrated on a pure level in the minds of few. Christmas is a public excuse for everyone to get excited. At times, it's like a reason to "boost" the economy by spending outrageous amounts of money. For some, it's an impulsive shopping vacation, just because it's on sale. Christmas is there to gather all of the relatives you don't ever see at the dinner table- even if really you don't want to see them. Family cooks oscillate with delight over opportunities for classy new casseroles that later go cold and uneaten. To children, it's a year of planning how to elude rules to achieve the ideal gift; little girls with pony dreams often go disappointed. There is never enough under the tree. Then, there are the few: the thoughtful, the considerate, and the kind. There are the people who try their hardest to do their most to do their best for all they love without a commercial holiday as a poor excuse. It doesn't take a price tag to make a lasting impression on the power of giving. There are people out there who just don't need Santa Claus anymore. Did we ever need him anyway?The time of giving is soon approaching, but too soon? It seems that every year... more

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