Winter Holidays

My friends and I had planned Christmas really early. We had planned to do Secret Santa a few months earlier so we had the chance to get the presents ready. On the day before Winter break, we swapped presents during lunch. As for my family, relatives from Oklahoma and Long Island came to Manhattan for dinner. I believe we went out for dinner at least three times. This year, it didn't really feel like the end of a wonderful year. No one made me make New Year's Resolutions this year like they used to but I did find myself reminiscing and wondering how the new year will turn out to be.

I think Christmas is just time of the year where people exchange money, basically. Christmas may be the celebration of Jesus's birth but it really turned out to be the time to give and receive gifts. I think it's a really stupid idea to go out and find something to give people if they do not really need it. The American way of celebrating Christmas is to spent all the money on things that are not really necessary. Maybe having dinner with families from other states is a nice way to celebrate a holiday but I don't think it's necessary to have three and spend all those money. During New Year, people are just excited to start a new year but do people really think about the year that just past them by? I think most Americans do not look back on the previous year to make the next year a better year for them. Some people make the same mistakes over and over again and before they know it, life passes them by. Maybe people should make others make New Year's Resolutions.

Edit [January 5, 2009 12:05 P.M. EST]
Throughout the break, I have been playing games and sitting around at home. I think that a typical teenagers American Way of Life is to just sit at home and play video games or PC games. This year, I did not hear any fireworks going off where I lived. I feel that people are disregarding some of the holidays, even though fireworks are somewhat harmful to the environment. As people continue to live their way of life, I believe that the meanings of these holidays are slowly extinct.