Yesterday I was reading the first story from James Joyce's Dubliners, The Sisters. To escape a nightmare the young narrator says "I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Christmas." I think this partially explains why so many people want to jump right into the Christmas season. It distracts us from the scary things of life for a little bit. It reminds us of simpler times. Things may have not really been that simple but in the eye of a child...
And we often fuzz out the bad bits of our past and remember the good. So it is with Christmas. I can empathize.
