by Lucy78

Created on: December 16, 2008

The question you ask is "Are we becoming slaves to the modern concept of Christmas holidays?". I feel the simple answer to that is yes. What ever happened to the good old family gatherings to prepare for the holidays with baking of goodies and gift making? Year after year when my children are asking for their Christmas gifts I sit and wonder about that same question over and over. I remember back when I was a kid the holidays were all about spending time with family. It was not just your parents and siblings either. It was great-grandparents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, parents, brothers, sisters and even family friends. Families and friends used to get together over and over again between Thanksgiving and Christmas to prepare for that special Christmas day. They would get together to make cookies, candy, leftsa, pies, etc. Most families would get together to make their gifts for others. I remember the best Christmas present back then was always a home-made one. It never used to be all about the most expensive gift a person could find in the stores. Now as the years go buy children don't seem to know the real concept of Christmas anymore all they know is that it involves presents and they hope for the best one ever. I hardly hear of children leaving milk and cookies out for Santa anymore. Yet I hear things like "I asked Santa for that new video game I seen in the store. I hope he gets it for me!"

Do we ever stop and think in the middle of all our rushing from store to store buying, buying, buying about how the holidays used to be a time to help a person in need? We are usually always so caught up in what this person wants or what that person wants. How we can't buy this for this person and that for that person or there will be a family corral. No one is ever satisfied with anything during the holidays. So to try to satisfy everyone we will usually just go and buy a gift card to a store we hope they will shop at.

What will Christmas become if we keep being slaves to the "modern concept"of Christmas? Eventually we will forget what the Christmas holiday really means. We will just keep getting more and more used to the rush of the buying for people and forget the helping of people. We will forget the traditional gift giving. Children won't need Santa to get them that one thing they have always wanted all year because they will have that already from someone else. We will lose the concept of the stockings being hung because no one will want anything small enough to fit into those stockings. Children won't look at Christmas as the birth of Jesus. Instead they will look at Christmas as the time to get the most presents.

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