The habit of Christmas-

Most people have the same reason for throwing up decorations in their houses, getting a Christmas tree and stringing lights round it, buying presents etc- because other people do, and because their parents did it. The whole process of Christmas seems to be largely something we do out of habit, because we’ve done it all our lives, rather than a genuinely meaningful annual event. For most people, Christmas holds little meaning for them, but they do it anyway, because “that’s what we’ve always done”- but what else would such people do?

It just seems amusing and slightly disturbing at the same time. People are living on a strange kind of autopilot, through which they do things not for any meaningful reason, but just because they have always been done every year.
Maybe I’m something of a hypocrite, because me and my family still do the whole Christmas thing every year, and when I move out, I’ll probably be compelled to continue the habit.

However, what meaning does it hold for people who don’t celebrate Christmas for religious reasons?

Yeah there’s the increase in food, booze, and parties etc, but nothing much else-it seems people generally become slightly more hedonistic at Christmas time, and then afterwards go back to their weekly grind of work-weekend-work-weekend.