ITS CHRISTMAS!

In order to really decompose Xmas we have to split into two seperate groups, both the positives AND the negatives (I don't think any kid has any...). Of course me being me lets start with the negatives:



LONGEST MONTH OF THE YEAR:
God, December MUST be scientifically proven to be the longest month of the Year (Every kid out there would agree, while the Parents can't wait for it to be all over)! Although not really a bad thing about Christmas, I really wish Xmas day was on the 1rst of December! For me this has been the longest Week of the Year! all the other months feel twice as short as one Week in December! But why is it so long? Well in December, every day feels like a step further to acheiving your ultimate heaven...YAY, PRESENTS! AND ITS FREE! ITS EVERYTHING I EVER WANTED AND MORE! THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY OF THE YEAR!! December is the longest month of the Year because it represents every kids dream all rolled into one (I'll never forget the day when I saw the Peter Pan Adventures: Hook's ship advert on T.V)!

CHRISTMAS = ONE BIG MARKETING PLOY:
While Halloween represents everything dark and instinctive about the Human soul, Christmas is like the complete opposite of that, aimed at giving and loving and everything nice and innocent about the human soul...and its also a great marketing ploy for practically every business and retailer out there to squeeze just about every spare penny you've earnt (with ridiculously overpriced presents) and to give it to your spoiled and undeserving kids (I'm not complaining at all though, but I dread the day when its ME that buys the prezzies and not your overly giving parents)! MERRY CHRISTMAS  (SMALL PRINT: WILL BANKRUPT YOU. IS MAKING YOUR KIDS SPOILT. MAY LEAD TO BEING NICE FOR ONCE)! Heck, Christmas is such a money-maker that pretty much every economy sky-rockets on Christmas Day. The Coca Cola Xmas advert, while being a bit of a silly family tradition for us (we don't officially call it Christmas untill we see that advert), is just Coca Cola's little marketing stategy to make you want a Coke. Father Christmas drinking Coke? His Teeth must be revolting! 

And now for the Positives:


ITS THE SEASON OF GOODWILL:
You can always count on Christmas to bring the best out of people, Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol is not one of the most famous pieces of storytelling for absolutely no reason you know! Despite mainly being wrote as a Victorian Ghost Story, it's a book about a man who's heart was so cold that nothing could cure it...except Christmas (and maybe a few bottles of Whisky that might lead to a few hullucinations, what can I say, Scrooge was either mentally ill or drunk!). Christmas is the symbol of all goodwill, the whole concept of gift-giving is to symbolise the good-ness in all our hearts. Either that or its just an excuse to give your kids presents so you can shove you arse full of "I'm a great Parent!" delusions. Remember all the Christmas movies we've seen over the past 50 years of cinema? Sure its a cliche now (you see one Xmas film, you see them all) but the main theme out of all of them is just getting into the holiday spirit and forgetting about all your troubles (ex: Its a wonderful life). They all have happy endings, and even the coldest, most evilest of men, is shown to have an Xmas tree. Ultimately Xmas is a representation of what we would all like to be, a season of much fun (decorating the tree, being given presents, watch the annual Doctor Who special, having fun with the family, all the Xmas dinners...) and showing the purety of the heart. Yes its a great sales booster and a ridiculous excuse for the Catholic church to shoehorn in a birth of a guy that probably never existed, but its also one of the best things to come out of the Human race (well that and Doctor Who, and maybe Capt. Hook...).

GETTING PRESENTS IS FUN:
What is the best thing about Christmas? Anyone that doesn't say Presents is quite frankly lying. What is the first thing you do in preparation for Christmas? Make a Wishlist, of course (or as what I would call it: This is what I want and I'll be VERY unhappy if I don't get it list!). Its easily the best thing about the season, a chance for kids to live out the ideal life: endless piles of toys just waiting to be played with! The hardest part is choosing whether you want to play the new Call of Duty first or Mass Effect 3 (TBA but come on 2011!). God, so many gifts, I don't know which one to choose! I couldn't give a crap about celebrating Christ's Birth or admiring the Christmas tree once i've got my grubby hands on that gleaming pile of gold, those things were just fillers to waste time and make Xmas day come ever closer. Not saying that those things are boring, its just that without Presents Christmas wouldn't be the phenominal celebration that it is today, billions of kids all over the world right now are just waiting for Xmas day and to chance to release the Doctor Who Blu-Ray boxset out of its prison of wrapping paper. BILLIONS! 

What it all comes down too is that Xmas is a great Holiday to celebrate. Winter is a cold, lifeless time and Christmas turns it into magic, its the one time of the Year when everyone can forget their troubles and the onslaught of oncoming Tests that await them and just relax and have fun! Its Christmas time, everyone, lets put the Music in the player, snuggle down and watch T.V and enjoy playing with your new gifts. It truly is the best time of the Year...