This is what 80% of you have expressed. I think I agree with you. It does, after all, house the best holiday: Thanksgiving.
But Christmas is better than Thanksgiving, you might say. Yes, Christmas celebrates Christ's birth, but it has been too tainted by commercialism to be on my list of favorites. Even if I tell myself not to get caught up in it, I still get let down once the day comes and goes.
Thanksgiving, however, has less expectation, so it has less room for disappointment. Also, Christmas is still around the corner, so the warm fuzzies don't die once the last slice of pumpkin pie has been served.
Maybe part of my lack of enthusiasm for Christmas has to do with the fact that I just spend it with immediate family: Mom, Dad, brother. We don't have much family nearby, so we're stuck with each other. Now that my brother's away at school, though, it does give me something to look forward to. At this current point in time, I am counting down the days to when I get to see my brother for Thanksgiving... eighteen days!
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I hated all holidays when I was a kid...maybe from the age of 10 through highschool?
Too much pressure. Everything must be just right and then everyone gets cranky when it isn't. All of a sudden this "family time" makes you hate your family and want to be as far away from them as possible.
But now that I don't live with my family the holiday's make me pretty happy. I get a week off at Christmas and it's good to get to see everybody.
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