Opinions on American Holidays

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American holidays are useless jokes. We celebrate anything that is remotely different, for an excuse to gorge and spoil ourselves with food and gifts. We throw parties on designated days, without even knowing the true meaning of why the day is important. As if there was any meaning anyway. I can’t find any real importance in any of them. Maybe I’ll just explain my reasoning. New Years- Technically, this isn’t just an American holiday. The whole world starts a new year as well, for those of you not intelligent enough to understand that the United States is not a planet. Besides, what is the use of celebrating a new year? New beginning, second chance my ass. Your mistakes are not erased, grudges are not forgotten. I suppose the most you could celebrate would be surviving another year in this haphazard world. Not that that’s a good thing. Or bad. Valentine’s Day- Must I even start? A holiday to celebrate love… it even sounds stupid. Love is a false image created by our minds long ago so it would be easier to raise our offspring, and we humans have twisted it into something hindering. It is easy to be devoid of it, but in all actuality it doesn’t matter whether you feel it or not. We shouldn’t celebrate something so unwilling. It’s a survival instinct to ensure the continuation of our species. Nothing more. St. Patrick’s Day- Come on. This is just an excuse to get drunk. Useless. April Fool’s Day- This is a day of trickery and maliciousness. My kind of day. But it is now just a stupid holiday full of fake snakes and buzzers. Halloween- Christian take on the Wicca holiday Samhain, the Wicca New Year. The Christian religious freaks back in the day got pissed off at the Celts and covered up their most sacred holiday with a random piece of shit of their own. Bastards. Plus, the celebration is ridiculous. Dressing up in stupid costumes, pretending to be someone you’re
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