Halloween, Christmas, Valentines Day: Why Do We Go Along with It?
It seems the media as put the people in this world on a mass buying frenzy thinking that certain holidays are things that you should shop for and few people really sit and think of the real significance of such holidays.
Halloween is here and tomorrow it will be gone, Christmas will come and Christmas will go. Mother and Fathers will roll around and roll away. But before each holiday everywhere you look around you won’t forget what it is coming up.
The media has put the people into a state of mind that holidays are meant for buying and recieving. It seems that you are not in the holiday “spirit” if you do not throw away your lifes savings in a matter of hours at the super outlet store or buy out the candy store around halloween.
Halloween
When you think of Halloween probably you think of children going from house to house getting candy wearing home made costues. That’s how it is supposed to be but now we spend hundreds of dollars on silly costumes that will be born once. People throw massive parties at Halloween, this holiday seems like it is becoming an exuse for women to dress sluttish and to get absolutley wasted.
Christmas
Christmas is a very special time for some people. They remember the birth of their savoir but yet some people seem to forget about this and go on massive shopping sprees hoping to get the best sales and try to spend more then their best friends. People get literally stomped to death at these door opening sales that the media tells us we should do to get the best deals. I remember going to Memphis for Thanksgiving and I heard many reports that next day, that several people had been stomped to death when the doors to the store opened. Now is that really the purpose of the holiday? Someone getting killed by greedy shoppers? I think not.
Valentines Day
This may be the most commercialized and overrated holiday of them all. It is a Hallmark holiday, that the ever popular Hallmark store invented to give an ecxuse to buy stuff from them. I have never bought anything for and one on this holiday as I think it is a waste of money and a waste of time. It is ironic that it is a love holiday when it is the anniversary of a massacre called “St Valenines Massacre”. Overrated.
Honorable Mentions:
Mother and Father day- Another Hallmark holiday
Easter- Candy, again. Really?
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ken bultman
On October 31, 2009 at 12:51 pm
I’m with you on this one, pal. Go Texans.
diamondpoet
On October 31, 2009 at 1:31 pm
I am inclined to agree with you, glad someone finally wrote about this subject, people have gotten to caught up in holiday’s. Nice write.
martinpm
On October 31, 2009 at 2:08 pm
We all live in the era of commercialization and its bound to happen, nice article.
Atikin
On October 31, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Hahaha, I know I should NOT laugh but there was a tinge of humour to this and do you know what? I agree TOTALLY. It is a bit insane that you have to get sweeties for kids on Halloween when you can’t be bothered to get off the couch and get some yourself (cover what you bought in sweets – who said I’m going to pay for the sweets I give strangers?) and I think Valentines Day is one day when all couples go BONKERS and make such a big deal about the present for their significant other and ultimately end up giving like chocolate… (AS IF I didn’t know they’d do that already). All these events mean big bucks for companies so I don’t plame them for commercialising these holidays because you gotta make the money and so they do. But it is nauseating the way people get so in to all of it.
And THANK YOU!!! Mother’s and Father’s day??? Sorry…what is the point in that? I haven’t given my parents anything for the past 17 years of my life for mother’s and father’s day and I don’t intend to either and frankly, they couldn’t care less!
martie
On October 31, 2009 at 3:40 pm
good article with some very valid points. Each of these holidays can be celebrated by people without having to spend a dime and could end up having more meaning.
Jane Jane
On November 1, 2009 at 8:37 am
I agree with you on this. Good that children don’t go for trick or treat here in our place. But as early as october, they try to carol for some money.
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