When I was home for Halloween weekend, I heard Christmas music on the radio for the first time this year.

At first, I couldn’t believe my ears. I thought Christmas music in October is ridiculous.

That’s not to say that I don’t love and enjoy Christmas music, but I believe that Christmas tunes have a proper time of the year, and that time is certainly not October.

As much as I enjoy Christmas music at the appropriate time, too much of it can get on my nerves. I’m sure I’m not the only one out there who feels this way. I can’t be.

If we were to listen to Christmas music, in spite of how much we all love it and adore it so, it would get on our nerves pretty soon after Christmas.

That’s with the assumption that it starts at a reasonable time, possibly just before if not after Thanksgiving.

But when we have Christmas music playing over the airwaves before Halloween, odds are that you’re going to end up Christmas-music-ed out by the time the actual holiday rolls around.

And aside from the factor of growing tired and disgusted with Christmas music because it’s been playing for two months straight by the time Christmas rolls around, we are forgetting about Thanksgiving and Halloween.

Thanksgiving and Halloween are their own independent holidays, yet they are lumped in and packaged with Christmas.

Thanksgiving, to many Americans, signifies the beginning of the winter shopping season, instead of a big turkey dinner with family.

While these other holidays may not have their own catchy tunes, they deserve the same respect and reverence that we afford Christmas.

Thanksgiving and Halloween should have their own turf, but Christmas and its music are taking over. It needs to stop.

Are we really forgetting about these two major Holidays? Holidays, by the way, which are not religious in nature, as Christmas is.

With Christmas being religious, some people of other faiths feel excluded by the preoccupation with Christmas in December.

Thanksgiving and Halloween, however, are not Christian in nature, whereas Christmas has the word Christ right in the title.

Getting back to the music, Christmas is in many ways known for its peppy, up-beat music, with a large library of songs built up over the years.

These songs speak of happiness, family, peace and harmony; all things that we long for.

These things can also be found, however, in the family feasts of Thanksgiving or the joy of children on Halloween going from house to house in costume looking for candy.

But, nevertheless, we are preoccupied with Christmas and its music, as early, even, as October.

I love Christmas as much as the next guy, but I think hearing more than two continuous months of Christmas music would drive me insane.

Wouldn’t it do the same to you?

Brad Kupiec is a freshman journalism major. He can be reached at 581-7942 or at [email protected].