Last week I walked into the grocery store, and it was fully arrayed Christmas decorations and candies. The stores at the Town Center Mall have set up their Christmas displays as well. Commercials and advertisements are already promoting Christmas products, and Starbucks has revealed its holiday-designed cup. There’s not one bit of Thanksgiving in the stores. They didn’t wait even a week after Halloween ended to begin celebrating Christmas. I guess I should have bought my fall-themed platters I wanted to use for Thanksgiving dinner when I had the chance.
This happens every year around fall. Christmas decorations go up a little too early, and even earlier each year. It seems that corporations don’t seem to care about Thanksgiving anymore. It may not bring much profit after all. So if everyone else has stopped caring, I think we should stop caring too.
There are few good reasons why abolishing Thanksgiving is not a bad idea. Firstly, Thanksgiving is not a gift-getting holiday like Christmas. It’s a good idea to capitalize on Christmas as much as possible. Instead of receiving profits for just one month, why not take advantage of two months?
Secondly, the spirit of thankfulness does not bode well with a spirit of greed. Thanksgiving is just a stick in the mud for all of the shopping we have to do this season. It would be nice to have more time to prepare for Black Friday shopping.
The Christmas season has really been about getting all your shopping done as quickly as possible, so that we can enjoy the holidays with friends and family. We spend so much time stressing because we are either hosting or attending parties, celebrations, and gatherings where we are supposed to relax and enjoy ourselves.
Lastly, what’s the point? I mean, let’s think about it, when has Thanksgiving really been about giving thanks anyways? It’s all really about rushing to the grocery stores the week before to grab all the ingredients we need to create the perfect feast. It’s about stuffing our faces faces for an entire day then rushing to Target so we don’t miss out on the Black Friday deals that we will never see again. It’s about spending the day in front of the television watching the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade.
Thanksgiving is being squeezed out of the year, and we don’t need it anymore.
