Christmastime brings a lot of fond memories, traditions, and excitement to mind. I
n my house, Christmas means going to the tree farm a couple of weeks before Christmas in the bitingly cold Indiana air and attempting to search for the year's perfect Christmas tree. It means starting a fast a few days before Christmas Eve, because on Christmas Eve the once-a-year Danish Christmas dinner is broken out—meaning, I need to make room in my stomach for eating twice the amount of my weight that night and I won't regret it until I step on the scale that night.
Christmas is a time where I get to see my whole family, and laugh until I literally cannot breathe because one of us thought it would be a good idea to make a dumb joke about something trivial.
But it's NOT Christmas yet, so stop with the Christmas stuff. At least for the next week.
The day I write this is November 15th, which means there have already been 15 days of Christmas literally everywhere! On an hourly basis, I am opening Snapchats to my friends listening to Christmas music while decorating a tree they bought the day after Halloween. Every store I go to, just to buy a gallon of milk, Christmas is plastered everywhere, rubbing its nose in the fact that it's November and Christmas is rushing at me. And it's beyond me how anyone could celebrate Christmas this early.
It's not even winter yet! It's not even gotten consistently cold enough to be remotely considered winter yet! At least it hasn't here in Indiana and that's part of what makes Christmas, Christmas. There hasn't even been an ounce of snow outside yet. And there probably won't be any for another two, three weeks, which means Christmas is exactly that long away.
It's just too early for Christmas to start. Thanksgiving hasn't even come and gone yet, though I know this is flawed logic because some people don't celebrate Thanksgiving and so Christmas is the next big holiday. But then why not enjoy an other month of fall and it's crisp air. Fall is such a pretty time of the year, especially in rural areas where you can see the leaves slowly changing colors and feel the quality of air change. You get to enjoy the bright colors associated with this time of year, even if it's just for a little bit before they evolve into the cold tones of winter.
Neither does it feel like Christmas yet. It's just not that holiday season yet, besides the convincing people are trying to do to make it feel like Christmas. Christmas feels like it's still months away (but so do finals so here we are), which makes it too early to even think about Christmas or anything that comes with Christmas. It still feels like it's the middle of the year.
Honestly though, I'm probably just a Scrooge and if you love Christmas, live it up, just know until December 15th, I won't be onboard.
