I was
thinking a lot these days (I’m always thinking a lot…), and not because it’s Christmas
and all of that… It’s because of people (like always…).
Why we
celebrate Christmas after all? Shouldn’t be because Jesus was born and to
celebrate life, love, and all these things? Well, if we have a religion (catholic
one), we should be celebrating that – Jesus was born.
If we don’t
have a catholic religion, and we celebrate Christmas any way, probably we
should celebrate a time of love or something like that.
Are we
doing that? Really???
I only see
people worried about the gifts that they should be buying, the food that they
should cook, etc. etc. etc.
What are we
celebrating, after all? Maybe we are celebrating our shopping ability or
something similar as far as I see… Maybe our ability to expend money and show
how much money we did during the year…
Maybe I’m
getting old, too old to be quiet and sweet about all these muss that we do,
when I think (and I must say that I think a lot, for bad and for good) that in
the middle of all this economic crises,
all this Christmas lights and shine gifts papers and ribbons are taking too
much space, in a place that should be more love and peace instead gifts and
coins.
What is
Christmas for these days?
Do we need
a day to celebrate love, peace or the birth of Jesus? Shouldn’t be all days
this celebration?
Maybe we
should declare a war day, and in that day we all can fight, buy gifts, spend
tons of money and so on, and keep all the other days to celebrate life, a real
life, a life made with small moments of peace, love, simple things, hugs, laughs,
happiness.
It’s
strange that we need a day to celebrate things that we should be living every
day, our time with family and friends, our ability to share and be grateful for everything that we have.
Yeah…
thinking a bit more about us and the way that we live our lives these days, in
fact we really need a day to remember all this… or we will never get all this
back, neither for a day.
