text: tell the truth. if you could get up the courage, would you stop celebrating the 'holidays' and. . .? just be the sane-minded person you are the rest of the year? i mean, every year you go through this, feel the obligations, get out the decorations, put them away again, say how joyful you are, etc. would you stop if you could?  bottom line, what is your fly-on-the-wall perspective on the holidays? how commercial has it all become? in south korea, christmas is obvious only in a few of the biggest-name department stores and palces, but not even much there.is that where the real spirit lies, in selling it to the public.  i don't see much religion in the holidays anymore, no matter what anyone says. no, i wouldn't because the holidays to me are about family. it means getting the family together (my sister and i now) for a spiritual reunion. it means remembering holidays past when my parents were alive. the religion is in the spirituality i think. and there is a quiet knowing and remembering when the clock hits midnight on christmas eve (and maybe a different time to those who celebrate another religion). who cares who's selling what? what does it mean to you and how will you celebrate it? my sister and i are planning an old fashioned christmas this year. with everything we remembered from when our parents were alive.