The “magic” of Christmas diminishes as I get older. Instead of soaking it all in as I did as a youth, I now think about costs: time needed to organize a family get-together, planning gifts and shopping trips, and various other details you could put on a balance sheet if you were a nerd accounting-inclined.
The biggest change I’ve noticed from childhood is the how secular Christmas has become. This is clearly depicted in a city like Toronto, where our need to satisfy every culture has led us to debate whether “Christmas trees” are really “Holiday trees”.
The recent rise in twentysomething atheism in the USA might be an indicator of things to come. What effect will this have on Generation Y?
December 26, 2007 on 2:41 am
If people insist on political correctness, Toronto’s “Holiday Tree” should be it should be called a Decorated Winter Evergreen Tree because not everyone is celebrating a holiday at this time of year. Hell, people who work through the “Holiday” Although everyone can appreciate that Winter is truly multicultural, that the tree is decorated, and that it is an evergreen variety…
Let’s not call a spade a shovel.. it’s a Christmas Tree!!