Another Christmas has come and gone, and I truly hope everyone had a good one. With each passing year Christmas seems to get just a little bit more cynical, especially in a year as bad as 2016, and because of that, it can sometimes feel difficult to get into the cheerful mood. But to that I say, never give up. Everyone likes to talk about how commercialized Christmas is, or how the world is so bad how can we pretend it's good? But that's not really the point in Christmas. Christmas isn't about pretending the world is good, it's about making it good. Doing anything you can to make people's days, weeks, lives better in anyway possible, whether that's the people you love the most, the people you wish you spent more time with or even complete strangers. Sometimes that is through material possessions, that's just how some people work. And it's in years as bad as this that we need an event like Christmas more than ever, yes in a perfect world we would be helping each other and be trying to make everyone's days brighter all the time, but we're not, but at least we agreed to one period of time where we should put more effort into it. That's kind of why I wish this holiday wasn't labelled as a religious holiday, and that's something else that fades with every year. Because it's quite ridiculous to just tell one group of people you should be better, it's something we can all learn and all benefit from. Christmas can never really fade, nor should we let it, remember this is a holiday so powerful it stopped a war, just for one day. It's a tradition that shows the best humanity can be capable of, we spend time with family that we don't see as much as we should, it convinces people to go out in hoards and do charity work, it has us listening to sickeningly sweet music, intentionally dress in ugly-yet comfortable-sweaters because it's fun and warming, and if that isn't the spirit of Christmas, I don't know what is.
So this holiday season, have a Merry Christmas, A Happy Hanukkah, A Kick Ass Kwanza and A Festivus for the rest of us.
Happy Holidays,
-Danny
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