It’s the most wonderful time of the year. When another year is coming to an end, adults and kids get a break off from school and work, and a time for new beginnings brings peace and happiness all around.

Christmas is one of the most popular traditions celebrated around the world. A significant part of the population of Americans celebrate Christmas. Christmas is more known as a universal holiday, where it’s considered important enough to close school and give adults time off from work, to get together and celebrate how to be thankful and that it’s the time of year where, “tis not the season of getting but for giving.”

While one half of people are rockin’ around the Christmas tree, there are also other holidays celebrated around December.

Jewish people celebrate Chanukah, a “Festival of Lights” or “Feast of Dedication”. A menorah in the Jewish faith is like a Christmas tree to Christians. A menorah holds nine candles, burned one a day with one always in the middle, to celebrate the miracle of a small amount of oil lasting for eight days.

The Winter Solstice has been adopted into a celebration for people who don’t identify themselves into a religion or practice.

Buddhists celebrate Bodhi Day, or formally called “Rohatsu”.

Nova Romans or Romana celebrate Saturnalia.

The most frustrating thing about the holidays is that everything is centered around Christmas and all other holidays get pushed to the back and forgotten.
Not saying that Christmas is a bad thing. The holidays are a great time of year that actually bring people together and make miracles happen, like watching diverse people of all religions getting along, and making people happy and forgetting about bad things for awhile.