The holiday season is a time where people spend the time with the people they love and make memories, but in today’s world its all about what you give or what you get. The holiday has become materialistic to many people. I agree with Amel Saleh’s opinion on how you should spend the holidays with loved ones and gift should be given with the heart and not the flashy price tag. I believe the gift would mean so much more to your relative or friend if it was a reminder of a memory you had together or an insider. Some people may have trouble buying extravagant things for everyone and feel like they have to break their bank to please people, but in reality they wont have to at all. While others think or feel that the only way they could express their love is through money.
The one event so many people go crazy for just shortly after having Thanksgiving dinner is Black Friday. Black Friday shows how greedy and gluttony people can be to get the great deals people praise about. As the years go by Black Friday shopping starts earlier and it rushes the one time a year everyone thinks about the great things they have in their life. Black Friday may be known as the one day you can buy the extravagant and expensive gifts at a deal, but really it isn’t the case it actually is the first day of the Christmas sales.
The holiday season is a time for our family and loved ones. For myself, the holidays is one of the few occasions I actually get to see my relatives, and when that time each year comes around I make the most of it. The holidays are the days I remember from my childhood and will remember for the rest of my life. I don’t want it to be all about materialistic things, but the love that we have for each other.
Your entry was really nicely composed. You made some really good points, well done.
ReplyDeleteI agree that Black Friday is just about greed and gluttony in America. I also remember spending holidays as a kid and how fun it was as a kid.
ReplyDeleteThe holiday is always for visiting relatives for me, and it's always to be happy. Like you, I remember these as when I was a kid. To be happy is what these days are for.
ReplyDeleteI agree that Christmas should mainly be about the special memories made with family and other loved ones. Some people have become greedy on getting and receiving expensive gifts on Christmas, and it's a shame that they see Holiday Seasons this way.
ReplyDeleteYour post was well put together. Good job, the holiday is also about seeing relatives who normally do not come around.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the holidays meaning much more than the flashy price tag. It is time where we should cherish our loved ones not the gifts we send and receive.
ReplyDeleteI agree that thanks to Black Friday and Cyber Monday it forces us to be greedy and be more materialistic. Instead of spending time with family we make it materialistic by buying gifts.
ReplyDeleteCouldn’t have said it better myself. I believe that Black-Friday is irony at its finest. Just the day before, people sit around and express what they are grateful for having and midnight strikes and they rush, pushing people racing to get the best deals on overpriced products. I agree that a more meaningful gift would be that of a shared memory or an insider joke shared by both the receiver and the giver.
ReplyDeleteMaterialism has become the central idea for the holiday season because of days like Cyber Monday and Black Friday. Like you, I think that the holidays are a time for family and loved ones.
ReplyDeleteI've been to only one Black friday, and after that I never went again! I did realize that the time I was at the mall was time I could have spent with my family. You made a good point.
ReplyDeleteI agree completely. I hate the whole black Friday glorification!
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