Hello dear readers*!
I'd like to take the time and the opportunity to wish you all the very best of the season, whatever the 25th December may mean to you.
If you're a Christian (and you lot seem to feel that you have the monopoly on this date, which is why I've put you first) I hope you have a great day doing what you do. Please don't give people of other religions (or none at all) a hard time if they've decided to take part in your festival in order to exchange gifts, eat, drink and be merry, and generally be nice to each other. Is it really such a bad thing if they do that whilst leaving out the god bits**?
If you're not a Christian and you're taking the opportunity afforded by a day off work to put your feet up, eat too much, maybe indulge in a tipple or two and spend time with family and friends, then I hope you're doing a damned good job of it. Consider a glass raised to you!
If you're not taking the time out to do anything by way of seasonal celebrations today, or you're celebrating something other than Christmas, then good on you. I hope it turns out to be a useful, restful or enjoyable day for you whatever it is that you're doing.
And please remember, whoever you are, the real reason for the season!
* Yes, both of you.
** If you seriously think that this is a bad thing, then perhaps you need to be taking a good look in the mirror rather than spending your time judging others. Just a thought.
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Well said!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
ReplyDeleteAlthough I should have probably offered a word to the anti- Christmas brigade. It'd probably go along the lines of...
"Christmas is a western tradition, whether you like it or not. Traditions change, traditions evolve. Some traditions disappear entirely, but being a tradition doesn't make it a bad thing. Do what you will with Christmas, and let others do their thing with it too. The best situation would not be to do away with Christmas altogether; it would be to find a billion different people celebrating Christmas in a billion different ways, all aware of, and accepting of, and joining in with, each other's."