For the past 4 years it has all felt the same to me.

A line that you always hear around Christmas time is “Wow it doesn’t feel like Christmas”.  Growing up in Vancouver I hear it every year and that has a lot to do with our weather. You don’t realize how so many events or things can impact the energy you feel around you. I mean what’s a Christmas without any snow especially In Canada, it is pretty depressing.

Recently I saw a video of a person explaining why this is felt so much among hundreds of people and the answer is, television. Just like how radio has started to die off here and there, the internet has killed cable T.V. When the launch of Netflix first came out nobody thought anything off it then streaming after streaming services started to launch and boom, the rise to commercial free programming.

You don’t really think about how much cable would affect your perception on events, but it really did. When it was Halloween what did you see? Disney Halloween movie marathons all month long, Halloween themed commercials even Halloween specials with actors. For Christmas it was even more than that all commercials were Christmas themed and there were classic Christmas movies running all month too.

This doesn’t just go for television it also has a hand in radio. If your parents always listened to the radio in the car during these times all the songs were themed and so were the commercials. While on radio they do still theme it around the holidays it just doesn’t impact as many people as it used to, because why listen to the radio when you can listen to what you want to listen to.

Or we’re all just getting old.