Oh the irony of loving winter but disliking the associated holidays. I’m sure I’m not the only one.
Christmas isn’t in winter in southern hemisphere
I grew up in NZ - we used to spray fake snow on the windows at Christmas and send cards with winter scenes, reindeer, robins, all that. On the day we’d have a big meal topped off with plum pudding. Bloody ridiculous.
I’m in New Zealand and I know we pretend it’s winter. But the season is still summer.
It’s a really weird filling since I’m from the UK.
Christmas is mostly an ordeal to get over with IMO. I’m an adult atheist with social anxiety and no offspring to vicariously enjoy the festivities through, so it’s really not for me 🤷
i’ve come to celebrate the winter solstice not because of ‘christmas’ or anything but because it’s an observance of an objectively empirical astronomical phenomenon. Recognizing the solstices and equinoxes were pivotal, fundamental, essential discoveries that humanity needed in order to properly leverage agriculture, and everything about civilization stems (no pun intended) from there.
Same here. I have neither the religion of the germanic peoples who ‘invented’ Christmas nor the religion of the ones who incorporated it later (or any), but I can appreciate lights, warmth and people who are important to you getting together at a time of the year when it’s cold and grey and dark for 16 hours a day. That’s why and how the winter solstice was originally celebrated and I get that.
I feel you as a fellow socially anxious atheist. Thankfully my parents respect my wish not to celebrate, but not everyone is so lucky.
I don’t enjoy the cold weather, icy roads, or shoveling my drive way ever week or so. But it is pretty to look out from my window. I much prefer fall right before it starts to get Uber cold. The air is crisp, the morning is just slightly cold, and the trees are turning all manner of color. That’s the best time in my opinion.
As long as I’m wfh it can snow all it wants
Amazing how little it concerned me when I was WFH. Loved seeing it blow around outside.
Just find some cozy music and brew some coffee.
For people living in colder regions I can certainly understand that winter is not their favourite season. We only have a little snow in winter - if at all - so the nuisance is minimal.
But at least it’s not fucking 100°F out side… I hope
It’s been 90+ where I am. A fall bbq event at work had to switch locations due to excessive heat.
I’m in the US
thankfully the holidays end right after winter starts and then you have like 3 months of post-holiday winter to enjoy. pretty much all of january, then february, then most of march.
The “Christmas Season” is Fall, not Winter*. The only reason the holiday isn’t literally over when the Winter season starts is that the Christians got their calendar screwed up and hold the holiday on a fixed date instead of on the solstice where it belongs.
(*Or “Spring, not Summer” for upside-down people, I suppose.)
I like Thanksgiving, it’s always great food and one of the only times I end up seeing family these days.
