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Why We Should Move Christmas to the summer
Hear me out…
In the Northern Hemisphere, Christmas is during the Winter and, well…
It makes no sense.
It’s cold, wet and dark. And everyone gets ill, all the time. Let’s do the sensible thing and move it to the Summer.
Just imagine… no frantic re-arranging of plans because older relatives and younger kids (and, in fact a load of people of any age) are sick.
Less travel chaos as roads and rails freeze (or have the wrong types of leaves on them.)
More daylight, sunshine and warmth meaning it’s so much easier for people to get together outside.
Instead of cramming too much food into too small an oven and frantically trying to keep everything warm (and shoe-horning 10 people around a table that seats 6) imagine BBQs and picnics in the garden or at the beach.
Christmas is one of those things where we just blindly do what we’ve always done without questioning whether it all makes sense any more.
There is so much pressure placed on this one day — 25th December. Why?
“Well we’re celebrating Christ’s birth,” you’ll say. Really? Do we know for sure that JC was born that day? No. In fact, the best estimate is that he was born on January 6th.
