The humankind had made winter celebrations since former times. Christmas celebrations had old roots in ancient times when humans celebrate winter solstice. Afterwards was been given a religious meaning. All the cultures and civilizations have big celebrations and Christmas is perhaps the biggest one. Taking into account this old meaning Christmas is the celebration of the new life, of the complete change, because after the winter, the cold, and death, will arrive the spring, the warm, the new life. In my opinion that meaning of Christmas has sense whether or not you have religious believe.
I think that we all would need to break something with the past, to change in individual and collective sense and Christmas is the annual period when we have new wishes, good feelings, and new hopes.
Another think is that Christmas celebration has degenerated in a shopping holidays, the biggest feast of the consumer society: shopping, shopping and more shopping....and that are dreadful.
What do you think?
dilluns, 17 de desembre del 2007
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