Given that the divorce and suicide rate rocket directly afterwoods. Anybody unlucky enough not to have family for whatever reason feel acutley alone, not to mention the enormous amount of stress it causes the mother of a young family.
2007-10-10 07:25:23 · 23 answers · asked by KRITHIA W 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
just look into the eyes of the women shopping in Tesco's in the weeks running up to Christmas for the answer to that one!
2007-10-10 10:41:16 · answer #1 · answered by The Grima Queen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plenty of people that do not feel that way.
I don't celebrate x mas myself, due to several reasons.
Its just another day, but it does give me an excuse to cook. Which I love. I celebrate just about anytime of the year, when I feel like it.
It is a day off for me at work. Which is great too. I am not depressed about it. I could careless what it represents, or what everyone else does on this day.
I feel what people would express as the spirit of x mas, when 5 o clock hits and when I go home and I am m with my family.
It's all prospective.
I don't need an excuse to buy a Flat Screen TV, and save it for one day til I can use it. . I just go out and buy the flat screen.
2007-10-10 07:37:10 · answer #2 · answered by krennao 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christmas doesn't necessarily bring misery iy stregnthens the misery we alreafy have. If you are not happy today... how you can you be happy tomorrow, especially if society has transformed a religious day into a battle of the Jones.
People these days don't really spend alot of time teaching their children the really important things in life. There are alot of absent parents due to working schedules. Most of these working schedules are so kong and they ysyally use the extra that has been made to flourish the children with things they don't need and crerating bills that must be paid, and leads to misery because they can't catch up.
It is not Christmas that makes us miserable... it is us.
2007-10-10 07:53:19 · answer #3 · answered by mommymanic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really do not like Christmas time at all.
I can't stand the ubiquitous consumption
for consumption's sake. All that spending spending spending
and for what? The person may or may not like what you got them... what a waste of energy and money.
Then there's the dreaded office Christmas party.
That alone is enough to make me depressed.
As far as the "true meaning of Christmas" goes...
what is that even?
Apparently to some people Christmas is to celebrate the birth
of Jesus Christ. But, seems to me they just co-opted
the celebration from Pagan Winter festivals....
I prefer Halloween. :D
2007-10-10 07:42:58 · answer #4 · answered by tamez 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think if people overspend on their money and go into debt just for Christmas that would or does create a lot of misery. You can be having a happy Christmas with just your friends ,if you do not have family. Thy are sometimes better than family ,without all the bickering that goes on on the holidays.
2007-10-10 07:34:50 · answer #5 · answered by silverearth1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it all depends on the individuals concerned. Christmas is a time for families and friends to be together. Regrettably, you always get the occasional idiot who thinks that the whole point of the festivities is to get pissed and spoil things for everyone else. The best thing to do in the case of these people, is to ignore them and don't invite them round again.
2007-10-10 07:38:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
misery for the parents. joy from the children as they open their presents on Christmas morning. keep plenty of food available, snacking can diffuse a tense situation.
have everything done like a military exercise - it seems the only way nowadays to get through the festive? season.
2007-10-10 17:33:37 · answer #7 · answered by lily 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
christmas is supposed to be joyous,but isnt always,but its down to each person to change that,,i have five kids aged from 14 to 2 years,and each year as it approaches i panic...it gets harder but i start shopping for them in august,,so by christmas although i and my husband are shattered,the sight of all those happy faces on christmas morning takes away all the stress that was previously felt...as for being lonely at christmas,even befor i had kids i loved being able to just turn up at peoples doors and be made feel welcome and i had the choice of where i went for me dinner etc...so the idea that christmas creates the misery is not true its the person that makes it what it is...
2007-10-10 07:38:25 · answer #8 · answered by dotty 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is with your obsession with Christmas? Yes, things like that happen because people feel alone, and that is sad. However, there are many families enjoy the holiday, and it would not be right to take that away from them.
2007-10-10 11:12:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It definitally does for the people that don't have any family or the families that can't afford to buy presents for their kids. My ex used to get real depressed around christmas time because his mom was not alive and he was not in touch with his dad. Also had a lot of debt so couldn't afford to buy presents, it was real tough on him.
2007-10-10 07:35:42 · answer #10 · answered by littleone 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋