Holiday haters

Well, I hate Valentine's Day, but it's just because the only decent Valentine's Day I've ever had was when I was single and had an anti-Valentine's party with my friends. But Christmas...I hate the music, I hate the movies, but I've posted before about the absolute joy that overcomes me when people actually like the gifts I got for them. I used to try to make them, but I don't have time these days with as much as I work, so I usually buy. This year was the first year I was able to afford presents for everyone close to me and it made it the best Christmas yet. I got a lot of cool stuff myself, but I got more happiness seeing the grins on my friends' and family's faces. If you don't like Christmas and don't have a great family/friends to spend it with, then I'm sorry for you, but I don't see the point in dampening the spirit of others. I had a great Christmas this year and hope next year I'm able to afford even better gifts for everyone.

 

I don't think he's spazzing out because people don't share his view, he's upset because people have to be fucking dicks about it. And there are a LOT of fucking dicks about it, ESPECIALLY on this website.

 

I complain about all holidays
It has nothing to do with commercialism
It has to do with the fact that I hate pretty every day and it's annoying when people make a huge whoop about a day that is just like any other day, people just opt to give it annoyingly special meaning

Maybe one day if I live long enough to find some kind of happiness or contentment with my life, I'll appreciate the holidays and grow to enjoy them, but until then, they're just another miserable day

 

I hate every day, but I don't take that out on other people, I don't see why other people can't make a big whoop about a day just because I'm miserable. But then again, by the same token, it would be annoying if other people expected me to make a whoop about it, when I have no desire to. People should not expect others to feel a certain way just because they do. Whilst I don't want to be patronised and expected to be "happy", by people who have no concept of why I'm unhappy, I also don't see why other people should be unhappy just because I am.

But me being alone, and unhappy pretty much all the time isn't the reason I dislike annual celebrations. The reasons I mentioned earlier are the main reasons for it. And even if by some miracle I did find happiness, I would still have reasons for disliking them.

And you're only 20, there's plenty of time for you to find happiness.

 

gee, i always thought it was the corporate retailers, "religious" fanatics, and assholes who confuse thoughtlessness with freedom, who "ruin" holy days.

as for "thanksgiving", the first hundred years it was celibrated, it was about having committed a genocide.

and estarte's day, with all those fertility symbols, oh naught naughty dirty sex.

argh, but i'll agree, its as pointless to hate holidays as it is to get caught up in what merchantilism has turned them all into.

one doesn't have to buy and giftwrap stuff, or make a gratuitous annoyance to one's neighbors, to enjoy celibrating the turning of the seasons. a good hearty feast, some origeonal and creative nonseasonal music (and not blasted into anyone else's eardrums either) and maybe a few decorations. quiet rituals like candles, incense, a drink of milk or water offered in some way to our great and small spirit friends.

 

You rang.

Actually I like Valentines day, cos its initials are V.D. and I find that ironic

 

my dad always used to say "merry siphilus and a happy gonariah"

(er exept that was for christermas)

 

of course I see how its my fault. Thats why I stopped celebrating it. It made me miserable when I was in a relationship, it made me miserable when I was single. So now I just don't even acknowledge it. Its a day like any other day.

Sure, this year my boyfriend and I could cook a romantic dinner and have amazing sex on Valentines Day, but we do that almost every day anyways. I just don't really see the point in celebrating Valentines Day when you can be romantic ANY day and year after year it continuously gets on my nerves to have EVERYONE i know ask, "What are you doing tonight for Valentines Day?"

Nothing, you cunts. I don't conform to your stupid holiday.

lol I am the person this thread describes in the OP.

 

I love love love Christmas and I had an awesome one this year. And it doesn't have to be about anything to do with commercialization or whatever because my family and I don't even exchange gifts.

 

Fuck the holidays. I am so glad Christmas is over.

 

Christmas is over, but it just won't die. The store I work at is still playing christmas music, ugh

 

Flag Day really pisses me off.

 

Not at all, not at all.

 

I honestly do not care what anyone celebrates or does not. I only notice who is true of spirit or intent.

It is not money, it is not giving or receiving, it is the inner peace of making someone feel special or happy that matters. We take nothing other than those memories with us in the end.

That anyone would want to take down a positive that people in general feel is beyond me. Other than the premise that misery wants misery, there is not any other explanation. The age old live and let live is probably the best answer, if you do not believe or wish to, then let it go and allow other to simply express the joy of fellow man that they feel.

If you want to be happy in life find some positive that you can believe in and live it. Spread a smile or inner contentment shared and centered as a vibe, as it is contagious.

Call it Christmas or any other word you would rather but find a way to support or help fellow man and it will work out.

There is enough misery in the world without personally taking it on.

Be the change.

 

I'm generally very Blah about holidays in general. Since I'm not christian I don't have any Real Reason to celebrate christian holidays except to play along and do what's expected of me. Same thing goes for nonreligious holidays, they hold no real meaning for me.

So basically, I can enjoy the act of celebrating holidays: eating food, drinking booze, giving gifts, being with friends and family, the holiday itself just means essentially nothing to me.

Now something like a friend's wedding, that's an occasion for which I feel like I'm actually celebrating what I'm celebrating... if that makes any sense

 

Of these, being with friends is what I really enjoy. And that is another reason I hate Christmas!

My friends are shut in with their families having a terrible time with corny ol` fat relatives insisting for the umpteeth time they have another helping of turkey, wishing they were with me. And, I`m stuck with mine wishing I was with my friends.

Now, compare that to New Year`s Eve! NYE is rather fish grease is you ask me!

 

Yeah, I have the same problem. Most of my friends are unavailable for most of the month of December, because of one fucking holiday.

In general, I have a problem with picking a date on the calendar and saying this is going to be a great day. I have had many wonderful days in my life, and pretty much none of them have fallen on significant days that are marked on the calendar.

You have a good day whenever you have a good day. And you damn well better make the most of it.

 

why else would i dress up as a xmas ornament .. :2thumbsup:

 

Everything about it is arbitrary mass hysteria. Society doesn`t exist, in the great words of Mark Renton, and even if it did, I would have nothing to do with it. Especially that part of society we call family. And, the happier the family, the worse it is.

But, one day I will be just like you...the dental insurance, the TV, the mortgage, the car, looking forward to the day I die.

However, I still think there`s something important about it like anything else religious. It keeps the masses in check, and it`s really important to those of us who just fake it as a yardstick to know who is a peer and who`s not. If you`re really cynical about it, we can use Christmas to communicate in code. In order not to be infected by the people outside of that code.

Those who take it seriously, I`m sorry, but they`re not on my same level. But...shhhhhhhhh! Not another word about it.

 

As does President's Day...WTF!!