Do festivals bring families together?

hi kiran, festivals certainly bring families together. my sibling, our youngest is married to a german and she is working abroad. she always tries to find time to visit every year back here in our country. and she always time it with festivities going on. like today, she is here and will spend christmas with us and her family. she probably will leave after new year. have a nice day. ann

hi kiran madam, that is right madam that families are together in festivals and function,because festivals all employees will get holidays,if functions are there they put a leave and come toghether at one convenient place and enjoy the festival or function,but we regularly does not met with others or others with us on festivals,due to business busy,only functions will make us together,have a nice day

I have noticed that Christmas brings families together because of the celebration. It is especially a time to see children enjoy opening and playing with their presents. In my home country each home has a Christmas tree that is decorated. The mother and father might put that up on 1st December. They will go out to purchase Christmas presents and pop to the post office to send Christmas cards. They invite family to have Christmas dinner with them on Christmas Day. The couple might have two children: a five year old boy and a 1 year old girl. They might have over the lady's sister and her husband plus the man's parents. Then many family members would come together. In a case when a man lives far away he is likely to visit his mother at Christmas time. Christmas time is a time to feel generous and enjoy seeing family and friends.

Yes Many festivals were being introduced with the motive of uniting the family members and general public on a broader scope. Festivals are the only time in today's fast paced world that a person gets to enjoy with his family and people often get together to celebrate such occasions on a larger scale by inviting everyone in the family and having a great time, releasing their stress of daily life, having a fun filled time in those few days. The atmosphere then is very much electrified and happy with a lot of joy within people. The Saints and great people of India had this vision long back when they introduced such festivals by whatever means as mentioned in the sacred texts. One of the motive of those festivals they knew in the modern time would be to unite people as the life then would move very fast with everyone getting very busy not have time for their own self. I strongly agree that many friendships, relations are repaired, misunderstanding sorted out in that joyful atmosphere. People forget all there sorrows for few moments or days and enjoy their heart out. I have had many of such experiences during festivals which made my sour relationships with my enemies sweeter :D.

I love Christmas. I spend it with my family. My brother and sister both live far away and I only see them this one time a year so it's great. New Year's I've spent at my brother's party before but my other brother thought I was flirting with these guys who were hitting on me. I had a boyfriend and was just talking to them, but he kept saying to me what would so and so think? My other brother (I have three) kept then gesturing to me to lean in and then laughing in my ear. I got really allergic to something at that party (maybe cat) and ended up in the emergency room the next night. I had an early flight to California but couldn't reschedule without paying 700 dollars so my brothers packed my suitcase and I flew full of IV Benadryl. I prefer spending New Year's with my friends instead of family needless to say.

Kiranji I agree with you, now i am in Hyderabad with my son's family, my hubby Professor is with me too, we have many friends here too. Lat evening we had attended a party on occassion of pongal hosted by Prof Reddy Hubby told me about you once, he has friends around the globe Not only religious festivals, social functions bring family together. nice discussion, thnxs kalyani

Yes kiran most of the people like to celebrate their religious festivals with their families,relatives and friends. These festivals have social impact. Some may not like to perform the religious rituals. Still they come to the festivals. Because they get the opportunity to meet with the dear and near persons. These religious festivals can be looked as social get together.

What good is a festival if we do not make a fresh start? For good or bad we have our family and friends. What every religion tells us is to make amends and to forgive. Once this is done, the real festivities start.

Hi kiran, yes most of the festival we try to celebrate with the family members and with the relatives, we try to invite them for a lunch or for get together on that day, exchange our greetings. It is real fun will make on that day. Have a good day.

I think this is true for the chinese festival as well because we think that it is very important for us to gather together during the festivals since we do not always see each other at other times of the year. Therefore, it is a pity for me not to be able to go back home during chinese new year as I will be having my lessons in the UK on that day.

Yes all Festivals bring Filipino families together, but the most significant for us is Christmas and New Year. It's the time we go back to our parents bringing along our spouses and children, and our brothers and sisters do the same, so it's one whole bonding of the clan, not to mention our aunties and uncles and cousins, even distant relatives are welcome because Filipinos value the importance of family very much and is best manifested during the Christmas season

thats right all the festivals are great way to meet love ones,and mostly people like this because of this,and people want to celebrate this with the families