CHRISTMAS COMMERCIAL DATE OR RELIGIOUS PRACTICE

In this essay I am going to talk about how some people actually see Christmas today , and give my personal opinion on how I see it .  To do this I am going to start with the definition of Christmas and the religious process that comes along with it.

Christmas is a annual commemorating the brith of Jesus Christ , observed most commonly on December 25th as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world , because there is a lot of people that share a different religion and do not celebrate Christmas , or people that simply does not believe in it. Christmas is a sacred religious holiday that has become in a worldwide cultural and commercial phenomenon. During the month of December before the actual birth of Jesus Christ we prepare with the advent period , that begins near the 30th of November. Now in this present time Christmas in my personal opinion has been a lot more commercialize than before , some people actually forget the meaning of Christmas or even what we celebrate in this time of the year. A lot of people now invented ideas that have been incorporated into Christmas , like the new year resolution , which is some new goals that people create for themselves and that the majority of time the never accomplish, the mistletoe right above your doorstep , in Colombia the day of las velitas that is supposed to be the day where Virgin Mary pass through our houses and leaves a great , sinless , joyful spirit , but many people has taken that day to light up wildfire and people actually gets hurt , the large feast , the present we are supposed to give, Santa Claus and the holly wreaths. Now some people decorate their houses with religious symbols that they do not even know what they mean. But in another hand all these new inventions like Santa Claus , the big 24th feast , the velitas day and religious symbols helps bring family together ,  because the family all reunites to celebrate these days , to have fun , and to remember memories of the year that has gone and create new one of the year that is coming , all the religious symbols and even Santa help us to teach the children the true meaning of christmas. So it is not a bad thing to add a few non religious ideas to the Christmas holiday , because the meaning will never be lost and commercialization will always be a thing , it will always exist because people need money to actually live and Christmas is not the only holiday with a meaning that has been commercialize.

To conclude this essay , my personal opinion is that Christmas is a combination of a cultural and commercialize date and a very big and important religious and sacred occasion. I think that is not bad for Christmas to be these way because the true meaning of Christmas is not lost and all these new ideas and additions to these holiday helps bring a lot of families together , after all Christmas is the most special and beautiful holiday of the year.