Why must sadness come at Christmas?

I think part of it is that people expect to be happy around Christmas time. Sad things, unfortunately, happen all year round. There are people who are alone all of the time. This is just harder and sadder at Christmas time because people think that it should be a happy time.

I come from a background where Christmas was the hardest time of the year. I remember having to wrap empty boxes just to keep an appearance of having something under the tree. Growing up in this environment does not really make me appreciate Christmas time now. Although I am older and wiser to know the true meaning of Christmas, it is hard to compete with those around you with nothing but dollar signs in their eyes and you knowing that your pocketbook is empty.

Sadness doesn't know when to come and when not to come, because it's just a feeling and our association of the mind with certain incidents. We take this dream life to be real and we cry for what we lose, in fact when our universal consciousness just perceives it as a passing dream. Sadness had to come during a festival, because man celebrates it on that day. What was before man started celebrating christmas? You think there was no sadness on 25th December? There was sadness in many people's lives and there will be further more. Sadness exists everyday on this earth, and there a millions dying and millions born. Millions born under sad circumstances, with diseases and various illnesses and in poverty and hunger, and millions die under various circumstances everyday. So, there is no particular time for sadness. We just got to know such an incident occurred on this day, and we consider it that it shouldn't have happened now. But, there are many incidents which would have happened on Christmas day which have gone unnoticed.

eileenleyva life goes on, bad and good, regardless of mans plans for Holiday merriment. sad but true. still we must remember this was the birthday of Jesus Christ and be glad for that no matter what else is happening. troubles do not seem to care that it is holiday season.

something that we did not expect before the event that there is now a special day that should be a good day but a day filled with deep sadness. We have to accept whatever happens, because what has been taken can not be returned.

1. Some people are fed up with the holiday, and don't see the "holiday spirit" in it anymore. I don't blame them, because of how commercialized it has really become. 2. I don't believe in Christianity anymore. It's tainted other cultures and has too many faults for me. 3. For ethnic people, most celebrate Kwanzaa instead. I've had friends that refuse to celebrate Christmas because it was a White-mans holiday. 4. Christmas should not be on Dec. 25. If there was a Jesus, scholars say that his birthday should be in the summer due to the scriptures. Dec 25 is to celebrate winter solstice and was a pagan holiday hundreds of years ago before Christianity took it over. 5. The world is in shambles now, most people can't fathom to try to be happy when they're trying to save their homes ya know? Just won't happen.