What Christmas Is All About

Christmas is a time when I can buy more than what I already buy during the year.

Christmas is when I can show off to others how good I am at decorating, gift-giving, and outward charity.

Christmas gives me the excuse to stress myself out and look like a martyr doing unnecessary chores.

Christmas is when I can finally prove to my neighbors that my house is better than theirs.

Christmas lets me save face once a year by spending time with family members that I don’t like. But I need them to think I like them in case I need a favor in the future.

Christmas is a great opportunity for me to show how well I can dress for whatever occasion.

Christmas lets me project my own needs onto others, by buying them gifts that a) I really wish they’d buy for me, or b) make them more like the person that I want them to be.

Christmas is yet one more opportunity for me to show others how much better I am than they are, because my Christmas “spirit” is brighter than theirs.

What Christmas Is All About, from a Charlie Brown Christmas:

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And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them; and they were sore afraid.

And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and Saying,

Glory to God in the highest, and on Earth peace, good will toward men.

“That’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.”