Winter Holidays

My winter holidays were alright this year. I saw most of my family on Christmas. The food was good as usual at my grandmother's house. But it just didn't feel like Christmas.
I think that my Christmas was meaningful, because I was able to see family that I don't see much. Everyone was happy and to me the meaning of life is to be happy and have fun. You could say that everyone was happy because they were getting presents and stuff that they want but there wasn't many presents and everyone was happy to see each other. The traditional Christmas is when everyone is happy and opening presents with their families that santa left. Kids would stay up all night trying to see Santa and can't wait to open their presents. However, as time progresses and one grows older, discovering certain truths about your childhood beleifs, Christmas becomes just another day in the year, except you are presented with gifts by people and are expected to give gifts to others. Things reverse polarities, where I would have found myself counting down days until Christmas arrived, this year I found myself shocked to find that Christmas was three days away, and I had nothing done in the way of shopping for my girlfriend. Another slight example of how things switch around between childhood and adolescence is gifts. When I was a kid, and I'm positive that most of us think this way, I hated getting clothes as a gift from my relatives. I don't think gifts are needed in order to celebrate Christmas. The family and love means more than anything.