It's the Christmas season, a time for families to gather if only once a year to celebrate the various reasons for this season. Being raised Catholic, Christmas was and still is very important to me. No more important to me than the next guy I'm sure. We all have our own reasons for loving or even loathing this particular time of year. Be it the sentiment or stress we all deal with it in our own ways.
What we do not have the right to do is "OWN" it. It does not belong to any one individual but to all of us collectively. I've heard on more than one occasion the following comment, "Christmas is the only time of year "I" feel like "I'm" important." How very inappropriate and sad. Did someone not teach these people what the true meaning of Christmas is? I have never felt as thought I owned Christmas and I'm sure the sane majority of you reading this would agree. This day belongs to one person and one person only and that's who we are celebrating. At least the "Christians" among us would agree.
It's laughable when I hear this utter disrespect of the holiday we are about to embrace. To use is as an excuse to act in selfish deplorable ways and to hurt others to ensure "their day" is honoured. It's all I can do to bite my tongue and not totally flip out on these pathetic arrogant egotistical attention seeking...I could go on but I'll stop there. Don't get me wrong, I think it's ok to place importance on the day, but for the right reasons the THE reason.
This year when wishing someone Merry Christmas, remember why you are wishing it and what the day really means to you. What memories you hold dear as a child and not because it was the only day where you felt you were someone, but because you were part of something so much bigger than you could imagine back then or even now. Christmas is not about us as individuals but us as a whole, those who celebrate Christmas do so with millions of others. Somewhat impossible to claim the day as your own, you'd have some competition.
MERRY CHRISTMAS! That's, how I see it.
Tammy.
