Christmas

I definately think that Christmas has lost all of its meaning. I was never a huge Christmas fan being that we spend it away from the rest of our family at our condo in Florida. I usually celebrate christmas with my whole family weeks earlier (were actually doing it this weekend), and now the holiday is getting even more pointless. Christmas should be about spending time with family and going to church, and not about your new 300 dollar ipod your getting or your new 150 dollar ugg boots(and i'm not judging, because thats definately me). I think one main reason we forget about the true meaning of christmas is because of the stores and all the marketing around the holidays. Every commercial on tv around this time is about great deals you can get for those expensive presents for your children. Yesterday in my english class we were looking at this cartoon and it was about how christmas is taking over thanksgiving, but everything that represented christmas was just a fancy tree with lights, presents, and santa claus. There was absolutely nothing religious representing christmas on the photo. At the rate everything is going, I really do think that sooner or later everybody will start to celebrate christmas, and the religious meaning behind it will completely be lost.