Holidays are a distraction.  A carefully inserted enjoyable event on a repeating calendar to prevent you from noticing the rhythm which has been imposed upon you.  The routine to which you have been programmed to gleefully follow.  Every event, added together, prevent you from existing in normal space time.  You yourself have never flowed naturally in this existence, the decay rate of a foreign atom and the delusions of beings of the past has stolen something you don't even realize you've lost....the present.