Media credit to Jerica Fagan.

Let’s forget all the corruption that the holiday has seen here recently (namely the shift from celebrating the birth of a child we cannot name due to political correctness towards presents and industry) and focus on the plague at hand. No longer are we allowed to say "Merry Christmas" due to the fact that we MIGHT offend someone who does not believe in the Christian religion. No longer are we allowed to get out a week before the celebration so we can begin preparing for it instead of finals. We are now forced to say "Happy Holidays" due to the myriad of religions all jumbled up together in one month. We are now forced to take our final exam merely three days before the celebration.

Please don't get me wrong (as many people seem to do when I write editorials), I don't condone the putting down of other religions and I certainly don't dig on lording around my own religion and pushing it on others. That being said (I seem to use that saying quite a bit, don't I?), I don't see the need to tiptoe around during the holidays so that other people can refrain from being inconvenienced by my good holiday cheer.

 I don't want to say "Happy Holidays." Plain and simple—maybe I'm just lazy. Maybe I like angering people who DON'T celebrate Christmas (even though most people do simply for the nifty little wrapped boxes we get every year). Call me crazy, but there's a larger chance of me running into someone who celebrates Christmas than there is me running into a Kwanzaa celebrator. If I come across someone who follows Judaism and is celebrating Hanukkah at the time, then they are welcome to correct me and I will wish them a proper celebratory greeting. By saying "Happy Holidays," you lose that personal touch, the caring warmness that used to circulate during this time of year.

Call it the tiny conservative in me, but I simply don't like the idea of removing the main holiday from the holiday season.  I refuse to be politically correct, either during the normal portions of the year, or during the holidays. So, when I wish you a Merry Christmas, feel free to tell me that you celebrate Kwanzaa, for I will respond simply by removing the word 'Christmas,' and substituting it for 'Kwanzaa.' Gosh… that was REAL hard now, wasn't it? Heaven forbid that I take a few extra seconds to make a best wishes personalized. But, like the society has told me, I should be time efficient and mass produce the most desensitized, fake, politically correct sayings I can. Bah humbug! When was the last time I decided to listen to society?