The good and the bad about Christmas

Christmas is a very important holiday for everybody; it is a special time when most people are in a good mood.

While everyone is happy and cheerful, Christmas has both advantages and disadvantages:

• The main advantage of Christmas is a fact that the whole family sits down at the same table and sings Christmas carols.

• On Christmas Eve every household shares a wafer and gives best wishes. Later, the whole family goes to church for the mass.

• Another advantage of Christmas is the presents – on Christmas Eve after the dinner Santa Claus gives presents to polite children.

This way parents motivate children to be well behaved for the whole year.

• For many people Christmas is only a pretext to show the rest of the family how wealthy they are.

• Material things cover the spiritual side of Christmas as we tend to buy a lot of unnecessary items.

• We spend a lot of money on nothing, instead of spending it on the homeless, who especially on Christmas need at least some help.

• Another disadvantage is the festive rush; sometimes we forget about our family, who is the most important during Christmas.

To sum up everything, Christmas is fine, unless we do not forget about the most important aspects of it.