What does Christmas mean to you?

Question

There's no escaping it is there? It's everywhere shops, television, schools, I'm just curious as to peoples feelings cause I can see good and bad and although I'm not religious I like to celebrate it as a time of giving and spending time with family but the commercialism and wastefulness of it really takes the magic out of it.
What are your views?

Answer 1

And I suppose you don't contribute to the "commercialism and wastefulness" at all? Do you put up a tree? Buy people presents? Send/give cards? Cook or go to a holiday meal or party? If so, then you're part of the exact problem you are b!tching about.

Answer 2

I am person of faith and for me Christmas is a time for renewal. The music is another thing I really appreciate because it brings me a lot of hope. I also enjoy spending time with my family when I am able to visit(they live in another state). When I can't spend time with them I spend time in the company of my friends at church.

Christmas can bring out the best and worst of people and it's nice to see people rise to the occasion to help others. I enjoy the giving aspect. I don't enjoy the crowds or the traffic.

Incidentally, I love decorating but it's tacky and gaudy the way that some houses are decorated.

Answer 3

i enjoy christmas for several reasons.

it is the celebration of the birth of Christ and should be honored for the religious aspect. regardless of your beliefs you should show respect to those who celebrate the holiday.

there has to a special spirit during the Christmas season because people tend to be kinder, more helpful, smile more and show their softer side more during this time of year than any other.

our family does several different things over Christmas, we stuff stockings for the less fortunate, we take holiday baking to the ambulance stations and fire halls closest to our home, we take turkey sandwiches out to the bus drivers who drive past our home on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. little things, i know, but they make people happy.

i try very hard to ignore the commercial aspect of Christmas, obviously you can't ignore it all but for the most part i do. we do not buy a lot of gifts, limiting our gifts to our kids and grandkids.
our grandchildren come over a week or so before the 'big' day and we spend an afternoon baking for family and friends! they then take the baked goodies and deliver them to several of our neighbours as well as to their other grandparents and aunts and uncles and their classmates.

and i say a quiet prayer thanking God for our good fortune over the year. we aren't rich but we are fortunate to have a decent roof over our heads, our bills get paid every month and we still have each other. i also thank Him for keeping the little corner of the world where we live safe from war, famine, terrorism, or any of the horrors others are suffering. and i pray our North American troops will all come home safely to their family and friends.

Merry Christmas? you bet, every year, and i wish you all the same!

Answer 4

Christmas means (to me) that that day is set aside for all to celebrate the birth of Christ Jesus. Even though the stores may take advantage of this time, It still is a time for family and friends to meet and enjoy each others company. The "Magic" is in your heart. You just might want to look into religion, it is the only way a person can see the "Magic" that JESUS has in store for you! As a Christian, ( a follower of Jesus) I feel the joy and love and magic that he has offer. I hope that find Jesus in your journey through life. God has blessed you with beauty already
May god bless you with all the things you desire

Answer 5

I love Christmas television, and bbc radio 4, and on Christmas day I like to have baked English Bramley Apples, and egg and milk custard.
Throughout the year, I keep my eyes open for suitable presents for friends, including in the jumble sales, even buy a few things to put away for myself.
I spend a lot of time helping others throughout the year, for me Christmas is a time for me,the radio, and the tv.

Answer 6

Christmas always has been and always will be a magical time for me.I love Christmas and the feelings of togetherness it can make you feel.

When I was a really small child my mum used to get my big brother to climb up on to the roof of our house when it snowed with a wooden stamper shaped like a hoof and print hoof prints in the snow so I would believe that rudolph really had landed on the roof for santa to come down the chimney and give me presents.It took til I was about 10 to realise she had got my brother to do it.

Christmas is about Kindness to strangers and forgiveness and hope and love.In my first year in Uni I had to pop back to the library on Christmas eve to e mail something to my lecturer as I had no computer at home.There was a young guy barely older than myself selling the Big issue just outside the Union.He looked cold and hungry but I was in such a rush to get to the library that I didn't give him much thought.However whilst I was in the library I couldn't get my mind of him,he was cold,looked hungry but looked like a decent soul and I resolved to buy a big issue from him if he was still there when I had finished.

He was still there but buying a Big Issue suddenly struck me as not enough,so I asked him if I could buy him dinner instead?At first he was quiterude to me,gave me the whole I'm not a begger spiel and I realised I had offended him.He might have been homeless but he was doing the best he could to suppoort himself.I explained that I hadn't meant to offend him but I was interested to hear his story and asked if he would do me the honour of accompanying me for some lunch.He agreed.It was one of the best lunches I have ever had.He was warm and funny and made me see things in a different light.At the end of the meal we parted ways and I never did see him again but to this day I remember how he touched my soul.I hope wherever he is that he got his dream,of a warm bed every night and someplace he could call home.

This Christmas if all of us could do just one small act of kindness to a stranger just think what a better world this could be.

Answer 7

The Christmas lights all around are so pretty. the tree trimmed and all the good smells of cookies , pies and scented candles. the feeling of love and togetherness with friends and family. Watching children open up gifts and be ing so happy.
When people start being scrooges because of the prices and cost of toys and things for the children , that will be so sad, because the children who go without all year long will be so hurt by not even having a Christmas.

Answer 8

I adore christmas. Its all about presents and food and chocolate and toys. It unashamedly materialistic, nothing wrong with that once a year. Its garish, tacky decorations and brightly coloured plastic shite thats been in the loft since 1973 and still comes out every year. Its Slade and Wizzard and the bloody Wombles and Cliff Richard and Paul McCartney. Cheap nasty crackers that don't bang and contain nasty hats that make your head itch and the worst jokes ever and tiny plastc things - a mini jigsaw, one of them fish that curls up in your hand, jumping frogs - more plastic crap. Big stodgy puddings that you set on fire before you eat. Horrible dry turkey that nobody likes but we get it every year anyway. Spending a squillion quid on some big snazzy computerised lump of plastic for the kids and forgetting to buy batteries. If your religious its a bit about Jesus, if your not, doesn't matter its just about what it is. Big tree covered in sparkly rubbish with chocolate ornaments that you hang up on December 9th and have all mysteriously disappeared by December 10th leaving little danglies of gold string. I love it. Its important to me that it means as much to my kids as it does to me. Theres real magic when you're a nipper and I reckon if I make it good enough for them they'll carry it with them when they get older. They still beleive in Santa and all that crap, I wish I did too.

Answer 9

Four days off from the stress of work, also just nice to laze around watching the telly snoozing in between programes, and eating and drinking more than normal. It feels like the whole world is taking time out from all it,s troubles.

Answer 10

I love Christmas because it is truly a magical time of the year. I have 3 kids still living at home and every time I see their faces at Christmas time it reminds me of how I felt at their age. It's great.