Shining Thru

I find it very interesting how the holidays affect different people in such drastically different ways.  Some people hate the holidays with a passion, some only hate parts of it:  the shopping, the traffic, the lines, the obligations, etc.  Other people love the holidays and begin prepping a year in advance.  Those are the people that have the Christmas lights up the day after Halloween and leave them there until Valentines Day.  I don’t think that there is anything wrong with either of the approaches, if you avoid friends and family or smother them with it is really irrelevant to me, what is interesting to me is that the same thing can cause such happiness, craziness, and depression all at the same time.  Some people are really impartial to the holidays, but it doesn’t seem like many.  It seems like if they celebrate Christmas they either love it or hate it.  I personally love it, but that’s just me.  I love to find the gifts and wrap them all up.  Holiday lights and decorations make me happy while they disgust others.  There are elements of the holidays that I do not enjoy but because it’s the holidays for me, they don’t seem like such a big deal.  Where as with other people, it’s because it’s the holidays that the smallest thing does seem like a big deal.  Such an interesting contrast in feelings from the people around.