It's that time of year. The leaves are falling. The weather can't decide whether it wants to be 65 degrees and sunny or 45 degrees and miserable. At this point, everyone is focused on surviving the last stretch, these last few weeks of the semester. Finals are approaching quickly, and the stress is building. And yet there is one thing that is sure to lift my spirits every year: Christmas.
If you're anything like me and my roommates, the Christmas decorations went up as soon as the Halloween ones went down. I know what you're thinking. We haven't even had Thanksgiving yet. It's too early. A friend gave the same confused response when I told him that my house was already engulfed in garland and Christmas lights. But I've got news for you. I don't care about Thanksgiving. For me, it's Christmas or nothing. That's right. I said it.
To clarify, I am not in any way anti-Thanksgiving. I am not anti-anything involving copious amounts of food. But in my humble opinion, Christmas is obviously the superior option, and I thought everyone agreed. I was wrong. I walked into my English discussion a few weeks ago and found my class enthralled in the midst of this epic debate. People were actually having to justify that Christmas was better? You learn something new every day.
I guess I can somewhat understand the argument. Thanksgiving is a holiday entirely devoted to food. Some people might have thought they were celebrating the quintessential American holiday - after all, this was the day we learned to coexist with the American Indians and broke bread with them or whatever. This is incorrect. Thanksgiving is the celebration of our ability to stuff our faces for an extended period of time. God bless America.
And then, of course, there's my teaching assistant's reasoning: pie. She said any holiday where pie is involved is a-OK with her. Here's where I retaliate. If the justification for why Thanksgiving reigns supreme is pie, then I'm glad to tell you that isn't a reason at all. You can have pie at Christmas - I recommend apple crumble pie
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