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Just Chat! / Bah Humbug?
« on: 06/12/2008 17:31:40 »
Christmas is just around the corner. I have seen several topic on several message boards extolling the bah humbug, christmas is crap, theory, and those people shooting down people who have the nerve to say they actually like christmas.
So, if we take out the comercial aspect, and take out the relgious aspect of Christmas, what is it we all enjoy about the festive season?
For me, its having the family home, its having the Christmas card and news from people I dont keep in touch with throughout the year, but am still interested in and think about now and then throughout the year, I love the chirstmas music be it hymns or crappy songs, I love the tree going up and the knick knacks that the children have made over the years come christmas time at school, being unwrapped, and hung about the place and I love the moaning that there is nothing on the television worth watching - we never watch it anyway.
I love the thought that in millions of zillions of homes throughout the world its a special day for family and for thinking about other people, and that for millions and zillions of people its a time to look forward and still be able to make a change.
I love the fact, that so many people who are on their own at christmas, or even have families, give up their time, and enjoy giving their time for the homeless and other charities, such as having an old person or a lonely person to share christmas with them. and that some spend their Festive Season, talking to people on the edge of despair,
That for at least one day of the year, families unite, other people are thought of, and there is hope.
I know also that for many, its a desperate time of year, for many hundreds of reasons, so I am not disregarding that.
But I love Christmas, I love the traditions of it, that are so varied home by home, family by family, I love going to midnight mass, coming home for a glass of wine, going to bed, knowing the children will be awake before I have even nodded up, I love cooking the lunch, the crackers and their rubbish jokes and silly hats, the party poppers, the queens speech, the being to full of everything to move.
How about you lot?
So, if we take out the comercial aspect, and take out the relgious aspect of Christmas, what is it we all enjoy about the festive season?
For me, its having the family home, its having the Christmas card and news from people I dont keep in touch with throughout the year, but am still interested in and think about now and then throughout the year, I love the chirstmas music be it hymns or crappy songs, I love the tree going up and the knick knacks that the children have made over the years come christmas time at school, being unwrapped, and hung about the place and I love the moaning that there is nothing on the television worth watching - we never watch it anyway.
I love the thought that in millions of zillions of homes throughout the world its a special day for family and for thinking about other people, and that for millions and zillions of people its a time to look forward and still be able to make a change.
I love the fact, that so many people who are on their own at christmas, or even have families, give up their time, and enjoy giving their time for the homeless and other charities, such as having an old person or a lonely person to share christmas with them. and that some spend their Festive Season, talking to people on the edge of despair,
That for at least one day of the year, families unite, other people are thought of, and there is hope.
I know also that for many, its a desperate time of year, for many hundreds of reasons, so I am not disregarding that.
But I love Christmas, I love the traditions of it, that are so varied home by home, family by family, I love going to midnight mass, coming home for a glass of wine, going to bed, knowing the children will be awake before I have even nodded up, I love cooking the lunch, the crackers and their rubbish jokes and silly hats, the party poppers, the queens speech, the being to full of everything to move.
How about you lot?