Holidays are weird if you really think about it… while some have remained true to their original purpose, we’ve really gotten strange with some of them.
Halloween: we go around in costumes asking for candy from complete strangers (isn’t that what we shouldn’t be doing on a day like Halloween?)
Christmas: we cut down a tree, put it in our house, and give presents to each other, and a guy in red comes into our house and leaves wrapped up boxes
Easter: a big white rabbit comes around and gives little chocolate eggs (or the like)
Columbus Day: we don’t do anything… well, neither did Columbus, really :p
Thanksgiving’s actually one of the only holidays that still makes sense – we gather together to give thanks to what we have in life. We’ve developed some pretty strange traditions for other holidays (on top of celebrating the original intent of the holiday, of course). I should really read up on how those traditions got started sometime.