As apposed to most years where my family and I do all we can to avoid the commercializing and cramming of Christmas into Halloween and Thanksgiving, we seem to have finally given in to the Media Moguls of the world, and we seem to be bypassing Thanksgiving altogether. We already have half of our Christmas decorations up, and we've been watching Elf and Polar Express. A Christmas Story, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman and other Christmas movie classics are sure to follow soon hereafter.
The turkey isn't even out of the freezer and we're moving on along with the rest of the world. Obviously society is has it so engrained into our lives that everything is go go go, don't stop, get as much crammed into a day as we can handle, even some to the point of instability. Forget Thanskgiving, bring on the Ham and presents! No one is even concerned with Thanksgiving anymore. It used to be a holiday concerned solely on bringing a family together and spending time with eachother and there was no concern with "What did you bring me? Let's open our presents! Where are we going on holiday?" Gimme, gimme, gimme; mine, mine mine. Thanksgiving revolved around bonding with the family over food, Scrabble, and James Bond movies in my family. And now, I gaurantee that this week will be about nothing but Christmas until the actual day of Thanksgiving itself.
However, beside the ever disgusting consumption and commercialization of Christmas; come Thanksgiving Day, families across America will gather around their dining room tables, with the little ones at their own special table, all decorated with deep reds, crisp oranges, and faded yellows, and eat joyously, pass the green bean casserole, load up their plates with Tina's potatoes, choose what pieces of Turkey they want, and politiely refuse the stuffing; and eat, drink, and be merry, for all they know, tomorrow they die. Atleast, the Thanksgiving Spirit will, for the next day, it's off to storage to get the rest of the Christmas decorations.
