It sounds rude-I know, but it’s that most wonderful time of the year, when all the world is filled with cheer and folks seem to be on their best behaviour.
I especially LOVE the holiday season, because I get to be nice and polite to people for no reason at all. I happen to specifically love wishing folks a MERRY CHRISTMAS and all the best for the New Year ahead. But the political correctness of the holidays is trying very hard and doing a good job of ruining that for me.
I was at a party over the weekend and ran into a colleague and neighbor of mine. We often see one another abroad through our travels with work and I’m always happy to see Ms. Beverly. We were catching up from the last time that we had seen one another and I warmly said to her “If I don’t see you before the holiday, you have a Merry Christmas!” She returned the holiday wish as if she were correcting me and said “YES- have a Happy Holiday!” Well, I just said Merry Christmas which meant that it was all well and fine for her to return the same to me if she chose to. But the tone in her voice was that I was somehow wrong for wishing her a Merry Christmas since I did not know her religious background.
One thing that I think that folks should realize is that while I know that there are a multitude of reasons for the season (KWANZAA, Hannukah), Christmas is as much of an American tradition as it is a religious one. I have numerous friends of the Jewish and Buddist faith who put up Christmas trees because it is an “American holiday tradition”. To them of course it has nothing to do with the birth of Christ. Same thing for my girlfriend who is of the B’hai faith (who loves to remind me that she’s not Christian) but she and her German husband have come to a compromise on which Christmas tradition (American or German) they will follow for that year. Mind you each tradition of thiers involves trees and lights and food and children and toys and family, and oh yes….SANTA CLAUS!!!
How can I forget about what they have done to poor Santa!! My cousin will not let me talk to her children about Santa Clause because she and her husband have told them that there is no Santa. She feels as if this is lying to your kids. Give me a (bleeping) break!!! I was shocked and appauled that she of all people signed on for this. She was the biggest Santa fan growing up when we were kids and had a letter edited and prepared and stamped no later than September of each year for the man!!!
Santa Claus was one the most magical elements of my childhood. The whole concept of elves , flying reindeer and trying your hardest to wait up so you could hear the sleigh bells off in the distance before they landed on your roof, were the best memories EVER!!! Now my cousins children talk about how at Christmas “people just buy them gifts”. Boo!!! Where is the magic in that? Part of the holiday fun is celebrating through a child’s eyes. Perhaps now I will have to have some children of my own to experience the magic of Christmas…NOT! Well not yet anyway.
Seriously folks, quit being so damn “PC” about Christmas. If it were ALL about the birth of Christ there would be no songs or stories about Rudolph or Frosty!!! Not to mention Dancer, Prancer, Dasher, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen! Christmas carols would ONLY be about Jesus instead of the “Twelve Days of Christmas” and what your “true love” brought you on that day. So stop being so Grinchy/Scroogy and bringing those of us who want to Jingle Bells and Ho-Ho-Ho down. Instead deck your halls, pour yourself some “Christmas Cheer” and enjoy it!!! Sheesh!
December 25th is CHRISTMAS! Period! So where does this Happy Holiday stuff come from? We have always said Merry Christmas and we always will!! If you have a problem with it, get over it! Please spare those of us who are just trying to wish folks well during such a hellish time with your stories of what you believe and just take the kindness!Forget about being politically correct and keep on wishing everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
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