What does Christmas mean to you?

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Morrigan

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What crosses your mind everytime you think of Christmas or hear that word?
With what is it related in your opinion?Presents,cake,money,games,family etc.
 
I think of slade, good food, presents, home alone 2 on tv again, shopping on boxing day and one hell of a piss up later on in the week. :)
 
I think of family. The most wonderful Christmas is being with my family. I reember when I was very small we all gathered together and waited for Santa to come (then I noticed one lad of my family was missing. That lad was dressed as Santa -__-) we shared our stories and everything.
So the main words in my opinion are family, love, snow and gifts
 
It means an excuse to watch The Nightmare Before Christmas, and an excuse to have a week off from any work.
Also means family, presents, great food. Interesting TV.

Relaxation being the main thing. I like to set myself aside from the world during this time (ha! I mean even more than I usually do...), but also to set my mind aside, give it a rest... Trouble free. Christmas to me is usually a much more beneficial holiday to me than the whole of summer ends up being for some reason.

This year I'm gonna emphasise my week off, try and enjoy it as much as I can, and ignore this upcoming deadline for my Egypt essay (I'll pick it up again after New Years day). I need this break because I'm going insane. INSANE! My mind is more important than my career! :O
 
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I must admit that the first thing that always comes to mind is presents, I guess because that's always just been a big part of it. As it gets closer to Christmas though, my thoughts turn to delicious food and my wonderful family. I think that's what I enjoy most about this holiday now, just being with the people I love. Also, since I'm a Christian, the spiritual significance of Christmas always comes to mind, and we often attend the huge service we have at my church. Christmas just overall represents a jolly good time I suppose.

Oh, can't forget Santa and his reindeer! That's a big one too xD
 
Presents. I have always been consumed with greed this time of year, aiming to weasel the most amount of presents from my parents as humanly possible. It isn't so bad this year, and for some horrible reason I'm starting to feel guilty about deriving so much of my happiness from materialism at the expense of others, but it's still what I think most about at Christmas.

Also, more recently, Christmas makes me consider nihilism and listen to black metal. I'm not really unhappy or anything, and I don't know entirely why, but it's been like this for the last four or five years.

And, of course, I think of 23.44 degrees of axial tilt in relation to the Earth's orbital plane... >>
 
To me, it means so much more than just getting presents. Sure they're nice, but Christmas is a truly special, family-oriented time for me. It means I get to be with my son, my husband and watch the look on my son's face when he gets up to come and wake me and Dave up. The expressions that cross his face when he sees Santa's empty cookie plate, his eyes swiveling upward towards his hanging stocking and then downward straight to the present-occupied tree is enough to make Christmas one of the best times of the year. Just seeing my child so happy, being with my family, eating good food, watching the Christmas Day Parade on TV, is enough for me.
 
PRESENTS! i mean...err...happiness :-)

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When I was younger I thought a lot about the gifts. Now I generally just tell people I don't want anything which, for the most part, is true since I buy myself everything I want.

It really isn't much about the gifts anymore but rather about being able to see family and being with the people I like to be around. Sadly I am unable to be around everyone at once because there is a big rift between my moms family and my dads, but I jump back and forth year to year seeing one or the other.

Then of course there is my girlfriends family that I have to see too. Nothing against them, just makes it harder with three familys to see.

Beyond that Christmas is cold weather, hot cocoa, eggnog, one of the few dinners on the dining room table, and christmas music on the radio. Theres more too, but I would be here naming all the little things for awhile, so I'll just stick with the ones already stated.
 
Presents I guess. I'm not really a religious man, so I don't consider Christmas to be anything really significant. I just see it as a time when I get new stuff. The whole family thing is nice, but I prefer being with my family when it isn't Christmas, The family togetherness thing just seems too forced at Christmas time.
 
One thing I forgot to add to my last post... Christmas to me also means stealing Jesus from his crib in the knitted nativity scene we have, and swapping him with a sheep. :D I pull that prank off every year, and for some reason it never fails to amuse. That's one of the joys of christmas.
 
Christmas to me is just another day but with presents. I am with my family all the time which can be nice but other times I can't stand being around them at all. We never spend time with our relatives during the holidays either. This is one of the reason why I don't enjoy Christmas as much. I don't even care much about the presents to be honest because it's stuff I already know that I am getting.
 
Getting pissed...and presents. But mainly the first one.
Xmas just gives you the perfect reason to get rat arsed, the presents are cool and everything and I love giving/getting them but getting pissed just gives me a reason to go out socialising with mates during the festive period, and in my eyes socialising > presents. :D
And the family aspect is kinda important too, but everyone in my family, bar 2 who live in Germany, I see on a regular basis anyway. :neomon:
 
Back a few years ago, Christmass meant nothing more than a chance to cover up all the school proyects scheduled for the next year, therefore I spent nights in my room doing my homework. The only time I helped to put on the Christmass tree was 2 years ago during the last days of the semester in High School. Christmass was synonynum to Me, Myself, and my Books/PC/Homework/Proyects.

But now, now Christmass holds another meaning. It means that I have cheathed death another year, and that I am alive to be with those I cherish the most. It means another year of being with the person I love the most (besides my mother of course) aye, her my gf (her name is in my sig if you haven't noticed -__-). Christmass means the conclusion of yet another year and the harvest of all sorts of new experiences which brings wisdom.
 
@ Juli: Nicole? :) Barely saw it, My eyes are instantly drawn to the apple lol

Anyways, Christmas to me means i've made it through another year of my life and thank god I'm still alive after all the crap I've been through. It's also means that I get lots of presents and money and... shit. :P
 
Crap music, Christmas dinner, presents, bah humbug..... Im not religious in the slightest, so the true mening of christmas doesnt interest me at all. I generally just think, here we go again for the next month or so, counting down the days for it to be over
 
Thinking of Christmas makes me feel kinda depressed since I have bad familial memories of the holiday... It's also a pain in the ass when everyone is preoccupied running around buying trillions of meaningless Christmas presents to give to people they rarely see or don't really care too much about... all for one day. But other than that... I try to make the best of it, I guess, and there's also the gifts and an excuse to siiing.
 
A lot of negative views of Christmas about... Not just here, but everywhere I turn. Christmas is the only time of year I actually feel a little bit happier, for the moment, as my parents still exist and everything. I don't feel any more lonely during Christmas than I do any other day.

I think it's just the way my family has done Christmas, I've been very lucky to have a household that really takes it with all their heart to make every year great. It takes a lot to make Christmas still feel good when it is actually the anniversary of my Granda's death, and that my Mom is still able to enjoy it despite this association.

If I were a scrooge, I'd die... Literally... Especially this year. If I didn't allow myself to enjoy it this year I'll drop dead, by my own hands, coz there is no way I'm lasting until summer without this break.
 
Well generally christmas means Spending time with friends and family getting alot of presents for all your hard work and love to your family. Christmas also means alot of good food and a huge christmas party.
 
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