What if??

What if??

What if other holidays were celebrated with the same fanfare, attention and bravado that Christmas gets?                                 

         Like Easter or the Fourth  of July or Labor Day or President's Day?  Or Labor Day Valentines Day or Halloween??   If so, about January we would start putting large blow up Presidents in our front yards and The History Channel would show continuous movies about Presidents  for 43 days and we would put up all the red white and blue we could find.   Radios would play songs celebrating our presidents beginning a month ahead and we would be eating jelly beans, peanuts and pork rinds.   No one would have to eat broccoli.   We would have parades and kids would dress up like their favorite President or First Lady.

       Or maybe we would have big plastic Jesus-es in our yards alongside bunnies with dyed eggs while blaring out songs about Easter.   Two channels showing us Resurrection films and bunny cartoons for weeks on end.  Baskets and eggs every where.    Memorial Day and Labor Day would be proceeded with flag décor and  The History Channel would have to have a second channel to help show us every war movie and documentary made.   Camo would be the new fashion and RTE's would be served all around.   The same for St Patrick's Day and Groundhog Day.   Days on end of being bombarded with commercials, decorations and overdone parties about one day. 
     Maybe I am jaded because of prior events, but I am really annoyed at the commercialism of Christmas and all the hoopla about gifts, parties, etc., that distract from the real reason-- celebrating Jesus' birth.  

This is how I feel.