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Originally Posted by Altarian
I loath the holiday season because it brings back memories of someone that i wish was still here. But i try to put on a mask so that my kids enjoy the holidays thanks to my parents and my wife's family spoiling them since my wife and i can't afford to give them anything big. Sometimes i wish i came from a culture that didn't celebrate the holidays. All in all it's a very bad time of the year for me with all the consumerism, working long hours so that the owners of the company can have a great holiday with their family, and seeing the look on my kids faces when there is a tree but Santa doesn't leave anything more than one small gift.
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I agree that the holidays have become too commercialized and the peer pressure to get these huge gifts wears on the gift givers and receivers. It's sad, but that's what society has made it. I think this is more of a hardship for parents and younger kids. As I got older, the family decided to downsize gifts and start enjoying the time together more. But even that's hard when major influences of the holiday have passed away and their absence is so greatly missed. My wish for you is to enjoy the things you do have, to count these blessing and share these blessings with the family.
