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This Holiday Season is Different

It's a day before Christmas a holiday I used to celebrate and participate in. This year especially I truly chose not to participate in festivities. I took a long look at what made this day special at all and from my traditions none of it made sense. We take our paychecks and run almost into more debt buying expensive gifts for our children and friends just to show them that we love them. We begin a lie about a jolly fat man who flies around the world in 1 day to give gifts to boys and girls who were good the rest of the year. But also there's the theory that this was Jesus birthday and we should celebrate his birth because of who He is. Is this the same reason behind the reasons we celebrate this year or any other. More and more robberies take place to help those less fortunate buy something for their children. What I ask is the true meaning behind the Christmas holiday and traditions? Well this year that question becomes slightly different. Two days before Christmas t...