We go directly from a time of thanks to a time of want, pushing into the Christmas Season immediately after the end of Thanksgiving. (And increasingly, before the end of Thanksgiving, but meh, it's not the 1940s anymore; if President Roosevelt were to come up nowadays and change the date of Thanksgiving up a week to encourage Christmas Creep --and ostensibly help get us out of the Depression-- I don't think anyone would mind anymore.) As it stands, though, with or without that there's still this violent whiplash between the sole purpose (at least in public perception) of the holidays, from one to the other so immediately like that.
Thanks to Danny for pointing that out.
And then... well, I guess I should transition here, so- as the Christmas season actually approaches, let's say that the spirit does set in, then. From the initial shock of low prices and great retail deals, to moving on throughout the month- the initial attitude can hopefully go away (not that it's a bad attitude to have or anything, you'll see if you bear with me,) that goes away and the reason for the season can take effect- giving! love! friendship!
Which brings me to my point, by serving to make the next transition all the more difficult.
We've spoken of a whiplash between Thanksgiving and Christmas, but really what always has gotten me is the whiplash from Christmas to New Years. From, giving and thinking of others, to, "resolutions" and thinking of yourself. Self improvement of course, reflection and all that, but it still has the capability to dissolve anything that came before it. And, of course, New Year's Resolutions fail so often anyway that it's so much a punchline that it's not even a punchline. Like, making puns off of "to get to the other side" and just assuming your audience knows what you're talking about, you can just take it for granted...
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