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Christmas.
To many it's a time to celebrate Jesus' birth. To many more it's a time give and receive gifts. To many children, Christmas means Santa Claus. A jovial time of year at which to put aside one's troubles, if only for a little while, to enjoy good food and drink with ones friends and family. Shopping malls endure the heaviest traffic, lavish exdenditures, men in Santa suits appeasing the whims of the children lining up to sit on his knee. And decorations, oh how beautiful a time is Christmas with ornate wreaths, velvet sashes and tasseled silk rope, tinsel on evergreen trees, and lights of every colour.
To me, there's more than that.
As stated in my previous journal entry, my family is everything to me. And when Christmas comes, I feel in me the true reason Christmas exists. And the reason is just that... love. Christmas is the reason a family stays strong, and that strength translates to every following day for all time. We congregate in our home, to celebrate our love for each other, with our arms and heart open to each other, in giving. The food we sit down to, the drinks we raise in tribute, the warmth of candles and comfort of each embrace. As if joy were something tangable, and you could wrap yourself up in it like a blanket. This is what Christmas truly is.
And then soon to follow, is the welcoming of a new year.
New Years, yes, a time to celebrate and look forward to the future. At least in my case. A lot of people see New Years as a time to turn on that wretched d**k Clark (Why isn't he dead yet?), get drunk for the sake of getting drunk, in a vain attempt to "party". They forget the true reason why we celebrate the new year.
Time.
It passes, ever healing. As if to wash away our troubles and leave for us a clean slate with which to craft for ourselves a better year. A renewed chance. That is what New Years truly is.
In time I hope more people will come to see it that way.
 Akira Hoshininjen · Sat Dec 30, 2006 @ 09:11pm · 0 Comments |
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