I love Christmas. I love Santa and the North Pole and reindeers. I love cookies and decorations and Christmas trees. I love Christmas movies and music. I wear Christmas sweaters for a month straight. I love everything about it. My family thrives during Christmas because we have so many amazing traditions, and we get to be together doing them. So, I’m always ready to start Christmas as early as possible. What’s so wrong with that? Here are 4 reasons why I think it’s totally fine to skip straight to Christmas this holiday season. Disclaimer: this is all in good fun. If you don’t celebrate Christmas, don’t skip straight to Christmas. Feel free to do whatever you want.
1. People start celebrating Halloween 2 months earlier
You know what I’m talking about. The minute September rolls around, it’s Halloween. I know you know a person who runs around like a gremlin for two months, watching The Nightmare Before Christmas and singing the spooky skeleton song. I am not partial to halloween, so I spot these people right away. They’re the same people who wait all year for Halloween and have no regard for any other holidays, so why is it that when I skip straight to Christmas, I’m the bad guy? Target puts Halloween stuff out in September, and you are all fine with that, but if they play a Christmas jingle in November, they’re pushing it? I think not. If Halloween can start all willy-nilly, so can Christmas.
2. Thanksgiving is historically inaccurate
“But what about Thanksgiving?” Thanksgiving is a lie, y’all. I hate to break it to you. It didn’t happen. Why are we celebrating something that is completely made up to make our treatment of Native Americans civil and justified? I’m not doing it. America has treated Native Americans horrendously, and I refuse to be excited about a “time when they all sat together in thanks and fellowship”. Native Americans could have very well saved settlers and they could have very well been grateful, but it did not happen on November 24th and it was not as grand and amazing as your elementary schools have led you to believe. Now, do I think we should give thanks for things that are good? Yes! Everyday! You don’t need a holiday to be thankful! I do that everyday! I am thankful for everything in life all days of the year! Do I love to eat? Of course! But, do I need a whole sanctioned holiday that supersedes the magic that is Christmas? Heck no! I can eat turkey (or tofurky in my case) and cranberry sauce any day! Also, my family basically eats the same foods during, wait for it, Christmas! So I can wait another month and not celebrate a fake holiday dedicated to our fake civil treatment of Native Americans.
3. It is cold out, therefore it is Christmas
I’m originally from Florida, so I’m very used to warm Christmases. When I was little, I used to watch Christmas movies and they would always be backdropped by white snow and cold temperatures. Even though I obviously wasn’t getting that on the alien planet of Florida, I knew how Christmas was supposed to be (cold!). Now that it is Florida-cold (65 degrees), it’s winter, and therefore Christmas. The logic is all there, my friends.
4. Christmas is all about magic and happiness
If all the other reasons were bogus, this is the one you should really cling to. Above everything else, Christmas is about bringing a little magic and happiness into the world. At a time like November, when elections are everywhere and finals are coming up and everything is tense and rushed, it is so incredibly comforting to bring the hope of such an uplifting thing as Christmas into your heart. Christmas, for me, is all about joys that I only get once a year. My mom sings in her beautiful only-for-church voice and I cry though Christmas Eve service. My sister and I try to put all of the other’s ornaments to the back of the tree and get up super early to look at our stockings. My dad and I watch the Hallmark Channel and make age-old family recipe molasses cookies. Kids get to believe in something magical and bigger than themselves. Families come together to love one another. So, why wouldn’t you want to skip straight to something so warm and comforting? Why wouldn’t you want that kind of magic in your life for longer? Who cares if it’s celebrated 2 months earlier?