What Do You Think Of Christmas? Do You Celebrate It? How?

[lssimo 1,559]

Many celebrate Christmas in the 25 of December, some I think a little later.

I'm not going to talk about the religious aspect of it because that is not allowed for obvious reasons. If you're a Christian and you celebrate it as a Christian or like others do, my respects.

But today Christmas has many aspects that are non religious, aspects from other religions, and aspects from other traditions. And it's celebrated by many non religious people and people from other religions as well.

So, it's many things for many people, whether we agree with that or not, and we should respect their beliefs or traditions or their ways they celebrate it, if they do.

To me it has at least two forms. I try to see the various forms of things, you see, and I think you have to know the various forms in order to respect or discard or criticize them.

There's the form where it's like a Birthday celebration by followers of Jesus.

But there's also a big commercialized form, with trees, Santa, Snowman, gifts, lights, etc.

I think I shouldn't have any problems with the Birthday type, but with the Commercialized type I have some problems.

I don't like the idea of giving gifts, except maybe for little kids that don't know what they want or don't have the money. It is hard for me to decide a purchase for me, now I should buy for someone else and know what they want or need? I'm not sure about that. I see it as a big waste of time and money. And bad for he planet.

Same with trees, natural or fake, and the lights and all the plastics that adorn it. Big waste. I know it looks nice, specially for little kids, but a planet with a little less waste I think is better.

Then there's like a race to have the best adorned trees or houses.

After reading this far you probably already know what I think about the music. Yeah, I don't like it.

Same with the films and stories. Luckily we can escape sometimes to the internet and look for weird music or play games.

Then I think many people try so hard to be in a good mood too. I think same fake it, and maybe not even because they like it but because they feel pressured to do so. Who knows what are they really feeling? Maybe they are feeling sad or are having difficulties.

Personally I can't say all these to friends or family. But I know I'm not alone. Anyone around here?

Yes, there are some good moments and you can try to make it better for you and others, but I think we can do that without all the nonsense and the waste, and anytime if we want to, not just at the end of December, but that's just me.

How do I celebrate it?

I don't, but with family or friends I have to at least be there.

Edited December 14, 2021 by lssimo

[Desghidorah 58]

Buying or making cakes. Whole day no study only enjoy.

[Bydo 20,181]

see in our house we do things a little different then others , we stopped going to church after my children got to the age of 16 , we gave them a choice on what they wanted and in most cases they were way to busy with work or life in general.

 tree - it has to be a real tree . my daughter would toss out any and  all fake tree's to the curb . it's not Christmas without the fresh smell of pine..along with needles dropping all over the place..lol

we do have lights and so many I think husband lost count . we think were now over 8 thousand .with some decorations .

Santa well most of you know my husband has taken on the roll of one of our local mall Santa , and he is good at it.

as I was growing up my mother stopped buying gifts , as soon as you had a family of your own she then bought for the child and not the adults . this way she still gave but for the younger ones. also now what we do is as  soon as a child reaches the age of 16 there is no more gifts from Aunts and Uncles on my side of the family / his side buy's lottery tickets . I come from a large family of 8 and husband a family of 7 . we do see most of them every year either on Boxing day ( My family )  or New years day ( husband side / due to his fathers birthday was on Jan 1). Christmas Day is now my children , we have seen his family in the past on Christmas day but it go too much having to do events 3 times in a week. this way now my Children get to rest at home and do there own traditions . since CV hit we have not seen much of either family's .

over all Christmas is family time , seeing we only see my daughter once a week on Tuesday nights for about 2 hours if I'm lucky. over all its what you want to make of this day off work. school or what ever you do . we enjoy getting a gift and giving from the heart , we don't need much in our life's we have everything we need to live .

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Edited December 13, 2021 by Bydo

[lssimo 1,559]

On 12/13/2021 at 1:01 AM, Desghidorah said:

Buying or making cakes. Whole day no study only enjoy.

That sounds nice.

21 hours ago, Bydo said:

see in our house we do things a little different then others , we stopped going to church after my children got to the age of 16 , we gave them a choice on what they wanted and in most cases they were way to busy with work or life in general.

 tree - it has to be a real tree . my daughter would toss out any and  all fake tree's to the curb . it's not Christmas without the fresh smell of pine..along with needles dropping all over the place..lol

we do have lights and so many I think husband lost count . we think were now over 8 thousand .with some decorations .

Santa well most of you know my husband has taken on the roll of one of our local mall Santa , and he is good at it.

as I was growing up my mother stopped buying gifts , as soon as you had a family of your own she then bought for the child and not the adults . this way she still gave but for the younger ones. also now what we do is as  soon as a child reaches the age of 16 there is no more gifts from Aunts and Uncles on my side of the family / his side buy's lottery tickets . I come from a large family of 8 and husband a family of 7 . we do see most of them every year either on Boxing day ( My family )  or New years day ( husband side / due to his fathers birthday was on Jan 1). Christmas Day is now my children , we have seen his family in the past on Christmas day but it go too much having to do events 3 times in a week. this way now my Children get to rest at home and do there own traditions . since CV hit we have not seen much of either family's .

over all Christmas is family time , seeing we only see my daughter once a week on Tuesday nights for about 2 hours if I'm lucky. over all its what you want to make of this day off work. school or what ever you do . we enjoy getting a gift and giving from the heart , we don't need much in our life's we have everything we need to live .

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Thanks for sharing that.

I heard the other day something like this: Every year, every family reunion, will not be the same. Things change all the time. Some will have grown, some will be missing, etc. In other words, let's enjoy every family reunion as best as possible.

So, enjoy your family time... and don't play Tanki too much (no, I'm just kidding)

[DarkPredator 212]

i don't celebrate Christmas