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The Christmas Season

Nov

2008

My earlier post had been about how sports seasons need to be distinct seasons and not last the whole year. This post applies that same idea to holidays, mainly Christmas.

What prompted this was the local radio station‘s switching to the all-Christmas-music format on November 1st. At least they waited until after Halloween. But I’m still boycotting them temporarily. Until Thanksgiving, I am skipping right past them (and any other Christmas-music stations) during my normal station-flipping during my drive home each day.

My favorite line from The Incredibles is something like “When everyone’s special, the no one is.” For the record, that line appears twice, but in two different forms. The first one is by Dash, who says, in response to being told that everyone is special, “Which is another way of saying no one is. ” The second one is by Syndrome, who says “And when everyone’s super, no one will be.”

That line, combined with the example of Marie Antoinette, gives a good idea of why seasons need to be short. The longer they’re drawn-out, the more diluted they become. Marie Antoinette, for those who don’t know, is attributed with having everything she wanted, so she was quite bored (“nothing tastes“). Life was not enjoyable for her, because nothing was special.

Keep Christmas (and other holidays) special: don’t start anything Christmas-y until after Thanksgiving. I know some of you may think this post violates that principle. I’m not saying don’t mention Christmas until then, just don’t promote it or start celebrating until then.

“But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.”
– Romans 8:25