I feel like every single year we have the same debate. The debate in question is, should it be acceptable to start celebrating Christmas before Thanksgiving? This question, I’ve noticed, tends to get people incredibly fired up either way. People are either adamantly on one side or the other. Okay so here’s my take: It should be considered acceptable to begin to celebrate Christmas before thanksgiving. I’ve always loved Christmas, I mean who doesn’t? It truly is the most wonderful time of the year. So if you ask me, why shouldn’t we be able to celebrate it whenever we want? Something else I’ve noticed since starting college is that we students really don’t have much time to celebrate Christmas with our friends at college. If we focused solely on Thanksgiving up until after the break, we would only have so much time to celebrate Christmas with them. Also, Christmas is the prettier of the two to decorate for. Give anyone a choice between putting up a Christmas tree and, I don’t know, an inflatable turkey, (I’m now realizing that I don’t know how to even decorate for Thanksgiving besides leaves and turkeys) I’m picking the Christmas tree. Christmas also has an entire genre of music dedicated to it, I don’t hear any songs about thanksgiving playing on the radio this time of year. What would a thanksgiving song even sound like? I am now very curious about that one. Anyways, moving on. Christmas is just all around, the more exciting thing to look forward to. It’s a whole season. Thanksgiving is a single day that kinda feels like the Thursday of the holidays. So, to wrap up my very passionate feelings about this topic, I’ll leave you with this. Christmas should be celebrated from November 1st all the way through December 25th. Thanksgiving can have the week of the actual day and nothing more.
Category: Misc
Social media makes me wanna crawl into a hole and die most of the time. However, there has been one app that has become popular recently that doesn’t make me feel horribly drained after using it. The App BeReal was launched in 2020, but it seems that only got really popular this year. The premise of the app is basically this: every day at a random time, the app sends you a notification letting users know that it’s time to “Be real”. You then have 2 minutes to take a picture showing what you’re doing in that moment. After you post your Bereal, you can then see the posts of your friends that you follow and send reactions. The whole idea of the app is actually really fun. In an age where all social media platforms seem to be highly edited and posed, Bereal is a refreshing break from that trend. To repeat what I said at the beginning of this post, I don’t feel absolutely drained to the point of nausea after scrolling through it. I like to see what my friends are up to in their lives, especially the friends that I’ve moved far away from. Bereal helps keep us connected and makes it feel like I’m not so far away. I think that it also has the potential to do a lot of good in the field of mental health. Platforms such as instagram and snapchat, while fun and good in their own ways, use a lot of filters and users tend to only show and see the good parts of life. Bereal has no filter options, you can’t edit before posting at all, and you don’t get to pick and choose when it’s time to post. All of these things make the app have a much more rooted and authentic feeling it it. At the end of the day, I think that there should be more apps that feel that way and I hope BeReal isn’t just a trend and that it sticks around for a while!
All my love,
-Lexi
