Thursday, 2 April 2009

Easter Vs Christmas

I'm not a Christian and i don't know much about the meaning of Easter, except that perhaps Jesus came back to life. Christmas is the story of Jesus being born. Both kinda just....false. I believe that there is something higher than us all, something spiritual. Not aliens but something. Now though both have kinda lost most of there meaning in a flurry of money and chocolate. Easter i think has almost entirely lost its meaning. Its this random holiday that means we get stuffed on chocolate, mums try and stick to there diets and we get a nice wee holiday for a couple of weeks. Not to do anything like remember Christ coming back to life, but mostly to stay up late and then sleep in the next day. Christmas is rife with give give give and take take take. It seems. It feels special though. Its that time if you have ignored someone for so long then would be a good time to push differences aside and reunite. Family have time to come together again, and gran has a chance to embarrass everyone and have a good knees up on a couple cheerys. Somehow it feels cosy and theres a twinkle in every ones eyes. Its a time to think of the upcoming year and pro mice yourself a new start. Something new to focus on. Christian or not its special, if not for religious reasons then for the reason you get to see people you haven't for years, its a time to set things aside and take stock, and just enjoy being off and being thankful. Christmas trumps Easter.

1 comment:

  1. What about an overview of our religious holidays still dominating the culture - despite the number of church goers being a fraction of the numbers who attended regularly 100 years ago?
    Still very personal and affecting though.

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