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Focusing On The Single Greatest Holiday Known To Mankind

To hell with the other Holidays

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Focusing On The Single Greatest Holiday Known To Mankind
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Before I begin, I hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. There's nothing better than spending time with family and loved ones while enjoying meals of vast proportions. Now that that crap is out of the way, lets focus on the single greatest holiday known to man, Christmas. Ah yes, the biggest and most magnificent day of the year that is so enormously epic that it literally gives Thanksgiving all of three seconds before ruthlessly drop-kicking it to the curb and forcing us all to bask in all its cheerful glory. Look, I love Christmas as much as the next person, but as a nation, we have got to reign in this holiday. While the cheer and merriment is fun and all, we have to realize that there is such a thing as too much Christmas.

If you're reading this and thinking “Too much Christmas!? Why, that is simply and utterly preposterous.”, I would like to remind you that the Christmas season began on November 1st this year. The change from Halloween to Christmas was fast enough to make heads spin. While the spooky month of October was having its fun in the lime light, the cheerful bells of Christmas were looming in the background of every store in the country. Some places had the decency to leave there decorations to a bare minimum, while others like Wal-Mart had an entire Christmas section set up even before the decorations for All Hallows Eve were in proper order. There is a transition of holiday cheer throughout the year, and Christmas shouldn't be allowed to skip this transition just because of its status.

Should you need any more proof that Christmas is overstepping its boundaries, then look no further than this year's Black Friday. Stores began opening this year at five in the afternoon on Thanksgiving day. Barely before anyone has had time to finish their second plate, let alone set aside an aluminum covered paper plate filled with delicious leftovers, they have been encouraged to wolf down the meal as fast as possible so they can rush to Target and get mauled by a mob of deranged parents trying to get their kids a singing Elsa doll (I'd also like to point out that Disney has been selling the same Frozen merchandise for three Christmas' straight. Either make a sequel or make better toys you avaricious con-artists). At this rate, we should just cancel Thanksgiving altogether and replace it with a Black Week. A complete knock down drag out brawl between parents from every corner of America trying to get their hands on the best gifts money can buy for the cheapest prices. Think of it as the holiday purge, only much more brutal and five times as entertaining.

Christmas is on the rise people. Slowly, but surely, its climbing up the calender, engulfing all holidays in it's path. Halloween is holding its own, but its only a matter of time before it gives out and we're singing Christmas carols in August. We can't allow this holiday to take over the others. No matter how wonderful Christmas is, the second we say okay to 365 days of the holiday season is when we begin to regret it. Christmas is a great holiday not only because of the gifts given or the cheapness of items, but because it comes at the end of the year. There's no better way to finish a year off than with the greatest holiday of all time. And with a year like this one, we certainly need some holiday cheer, and I can even understand the want to move the holiday up, but we need to resist that urge. Because if we try to start celebrating Christmas in January, I can assure you that we won't care about it in December.

Happy holidays and thanks for reading.

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