How does each type feel about the holidays?

[c-jade]

As the weather is finally getting a little cooler, I am already trying to hold back from decorating everything in red and green. So I was curious, how does each type tend to feel about Christmas/the holiday season? Does it overwhelm you, excite you, is it your favorite time of the year, are you indifferent, does it frustrate you to no end? I am talking less about the religious aspect of the holidays and more about the season overall.

Interested to hear everyone's thoughts!

 

[Yama]

I LOVE HOLIDAYS!!!

The ones that I actually care about anyway. Columbus Day? Yuck. Christmas (even though I'm not even religious)? Halloween!?!? YES PLEASE. Even though I'm too shy to pass out candy to people on Halloween and I'm too old to trick or treat... still my favorite holiday. I just invite my ENFP mom over and she takes care of the candy handling

I revere the birthdays of the people I care about pretty much as holidays as well.

I like holidays because they make a boring ordinary day feel special. Although in recent years holidays have stopped feeling as holiday-ish for me. After my parents got divorced I moved in with my dad, staying here while I go to college. He doesn't decorate for holidays and we didn't even have a Christmas tree until last year when he found an old dinky one for 2 dollars at a garage sale. Even though it was the shittiest fake tree imaginable it made all the difference for me. When I move out and get my own place, I'm gonna turn into one of those crazy people who has a plastic storage container full of decorations for every month of the year

 

[Qlip]

This type chooses to believe that official holidays don't exist, and wigs out imagining so many people trying to feel the same thing about the same subject at the same time. He alternately observes spontaneously significant events, like a ray of light breaking from a cloud, the landing of a penny on its side, and not-Thanksgiving Day, where a turkey meal is prepared 3 days prior to Thanksgiving. I imagine all ENFP 4w5 sp/sx's feel exactly the same as I do.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

I don't really think we should celebrate Columbus day, and prefer Armistice Day to Veteran's Day.

 

[RedAmazoneFriendZone]

I love it, it is the right time for every grumpy dwarf to seize the chance to feel like a child

My favourite time of the year is in June, time for my birthday and begining of summer time !

I don't buy any christmas tree because I'm living alone, but I love the work they do in the streets, and all those songs .

I don't feel different, maybe more conscious of what his over for the passed year and what are my plans for the year to come.

A kind of "joyful symbolism"

 

[andresimon]

As the weather is finally getting a little cooler, I am already trying to hold back from decorating everything in red and green. So I was curious, how does each type tend to feel about Christmas/the holiday season? Does it overwhelm you, excite you, is it your favorite time of the year, are you indifferent, does it frustrate you to no end? I am talking less about the religious aspect of the holidays and more about the season overall.

Interested to hear everyone's thoughts!

So many traditions at one point started off in a marketers head. Others traditions have long been traditions but things have been added by marketers. Later they become a part of our culture and become untouchable.

 

[Fregoli]

I like Christmas, but it has to be a proper Christmas: lots of people, lots of food, and ideally snowing outside. And a traditional market like in Northern Europe, with people serving gloggi and selling wooden carvings, and a massive decorated tree in the town square.

When I was a teenager, Christmas only tended to be the immediate family: my parents, my brother and me. Which misses the point rather. And living in the Southern Hemisphere, December 25th is 30 degrees plus - so a feast of roast goose, fruit cake and Christmas pudding is too heavy.

 

[ceecee]

I am talking less about the religious aspect of the holidays and more about the season overall.

Interested to hear everyone's thoughts!

I love the holidays and having children made me love them more. I live in a place that gets snow and cold so it's less work to get into the holiday spirit. I really embrace that Danish term - hygge during the holidays and winter months. Warm. Cozy. Fires going. Something rich and warm and filling in the oven. Just that nested, content feeling you don't get in the warmer months.

 

[cascadeco]

I really love Christmas and Thanksgiving. Even growing up, I enjoyed Easter, though now that's not something I can relate to / I don't have kids or anything, so the non-religious aspects don't really apply.

I'm thankful I grew up in a non-dramatic, overall functional family -- I hear so many stories of people who end up being miserable over the holidays due to that, where they become stressful for everyone. For me, growing up, it was never a stressful thing. It was always very nice, pleasant, fun, wonderful. I can still recall the feelings as a child I had - really, throughout my youth -- of just how much I valued that month or so. The magic/warmth tied to all of it, in my associations. I think for all involved. (ofc my mom I'm sure had some stress via cooking and such, but stress didn't extend to everyone else / she was fine from my observations)

So, probably due to positive experiences growing up, I associate the holidays with warm fuzziness. Baking cookies, decorating, toasty warmth inside, really good food, family. I love them.

 

[Hank]

In general, I love holidays. It's nice to have reason to get together with people and have a good time.

Specifically talking about the November/December holidays, and being aware of my unfortunate resemblance to Christmas movie character cliches: I almost loathe Christmas because of commercialization. If Christmas were strictly about getting together with the people you love and/or celebrating the religious aspect, then I would love it. The two to three months of HEY HAVE YOU BOUGHT EVERYONE YOU KNOW SOMETHING BECAUSE YOU NEED TO BUY THEM SOMETHING OR ELSE THEY WON'T THINK THEY LOVE YOU ANYMORE AND IMMEDIATELY DISOWN YOU gets old very quickly. I saw Christmas lights for sale in August and almost threw up. (Then again, I get a 0 in Receiving Gifts as a Love Language, so maybe that's part of it, too? If we could give hugs as gifts, I would be so down.)

Which is probably why I get way more into New Year's. It's all the fun and anticipation of Christmas, except without the sales and is limited to one evening.

 

[magpie]

I get irritated and overstimulated by constant repition of similar songs in every public area.

 

[Chrysanthe]

Nostalgic and depressive for the reason that the holidays will never be the same as they were as an innocent little kid...

They still induce a mood of well-being and comfort reminiscent of opiates and everything fuzzy and warm... Mmm... yes Christmas is definitely the most wonderful time of the year.

IT JUST TICKLES MY SI THE RIGHT WAY

 

[Fregoli]

In general, I love holidays. It's nice to have reason to get together with people and have a good time.

Specifically talking about the November/December holidays, and being aware of my unfortunate resemblance to Christmas movie character cliches: I almost loathe Christmas because of commercialization. If Christmas were strictly about getting together with the people you love and/or celebrating the religious aspect, then I would love it. The two to three months of HEY HAVE YOU BOUGHT EVERYONE YOU KNOW SOMETHING BECAUSE YOU NEED TO BUY THEM SOMETHING OR ELSE THEY WON'T THINK THEY LOVE YOU ANYMORE AND IMMEDIATELY DISOWN YOU gets old very quickly. I saw Christmas lights for sale in August and almost threw up. (Then again, I get a 0 in Receiving Gifts as a Love Language, so maybe that's part of it, too? If we could give hugs as gifts, I would be so down.)

Yeah, the commercialisation's annoying! It's not even November, and the local mall has already set up their Santa Claus grotto. Easter eggs are on sale before New Year's.

 

[ceecee]

Don't hate on the organized planning people who like Christmas stuff out in July.
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[Hawthorne]

...holidays?

 

[chubber]

Christmas annoys me, because:

• I have to see my family
• They guilt trip me into seeing them
• They want to give out presents, I hate it
• They make me feel guilty about not wanting to give presents or have any
• The food sucks
• Too much niceness

 

[Ene]

I don't think holiday preferences have much to do with type, more with culture, upbringing, etc.

 

[Smilephantomhive]

I love the feel of Christmas, but I don't really care about the holiday since my family doesn't really do anything. Getting presents is nice though.

 

[Also]

I love Halloween. I don't get dressed up but I do pass out candy and I enjoy all of the scary crap they play on TV. Especially the Twilight Zone marathon.

I also enjoy Christmas, although gift-giving is a new thing with my family. My parents never gave us gifts as the dinner was the gift. Also, growing up we rarely had a tree or lights so I complained about that and they put me in charge of it ever since. I enjoy decorating my mother's house and my family always thinks it looks nice. It's the only time of the year I get to see my older brother since we are both away at school so that's nice as well. I get along really well with my siblings so I guess I would enjoy anything I do with them. If I had kids, I think I would be uncontrollable with decorations, food, games, and gifts.

 

[ceecee]

I think we should have Captain Cook day instead, if we must celebrate an imperialist explorer. He was the most enlightened and least brutal.

If we're going for accuracy as far as explorers and colonizing goes, it has to be Leif Erikson.