Written by Kalista Roades<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once Halloween is over, everybody starts getting into a lot of arguments that don\u2019t get anywhere. Every year, we have these arguments, and no one\u2019s mind is changed. Let me give some examples, but don\u2019t come for me when I say \u201cDie Hard\u201d <\/em>and \u201cThe Nightmare Before Christmas\u201d are not Christmas movies, and Christmas music and trees and twinkle lights are appropriate starting on Nov. 1. All that being said, I\u2019m still here to make my case and keep the arguments going anyway, because at this point, is it really Christmas unless you\u2019ve argued about how soon you can play Christmas music?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I always start my Christmas season in early November. The exact date varies based on my homework load, but usually by the first week I\u2019ve listened to Christmas music at least once. By the third week, I\u2019ll have my tree up in my room, and I\u2019ll be doing homework by twinkle lights. Come December, I have at least one or two Christmas movie nights a week, and Christmas music is on for every drive. This is also when the ugly Christmas sweaters come back from hibernation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I know lots of people like to argue that this diminishes Thanksgiving, but let\u2019s be honest \u2014 Thanksgiving is a holiday with a dubious history that now just consists of a two-hour parade and a meal of usually only OK food (unless you have a chef in the family). It\u2019s not a good enough holiday to get all of November. Besides, twinkle lights on roofs are just festive \u2014 they don\u2019t necessarily scream Christmas, especially if they\u2019re the classic white lights. Yes, some of the Christmas songs get old after a while (looking at you, Mariah Carey), but you can always purposefully space out when you listen to them so they don\u2019t get tiresome too quickly. And there\u2019s maybe one Thanksgiving movie worth watching (Charlie Brown, of course), but there are countless Christmas movies \u2014 we need more than just December to watch them all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now this isn\u2019t to say that I\u2019m against the folks that wait for Christmas celebrations until after Thanksgiving. I won\u2019t go blaring Christmas music in the dorm, and I won\u2019t wear an ugly Christmas sweater until December. If I have to, I\u2019ll have my Christmas season in private and in secret, but I hope that\u2019s not the case. One of the benefits of starting Christmastime this early is that I can celebrate with my Harding friends before going home for break. Theoretically there\u2019s some time between Thanksgiving and Christmas, but I plan on studying for finals for most of that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I just don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything wrong with starting Christmas early. For me, it\u2019s a season of joy, giving and hope, and can\u2019t we all use a little more of that as we finish out the semester? At the end of the day, if twinkle lights and feel-good movies make you happy, I say you should be able to have that whenever you want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Written by Kalista Roades Once Halloween is over, everybody starts getting into a lot of arguments that don\u2019t get anywhere. Every year, we have these arguments, and no one\u2019s mind…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15068,"featured_media":18109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15068"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18114,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18108\/revisions\/18114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}