I’ve written before (and at exceeding
length) how much I love Christmas. If this offends you – get over yourself! I
repost these words every year so there’s a proper amount of explanation for the
bruising amount of oversentimentality I will inflict upon you in the coming
days – Deal With It!
We’re getting close to my favorite
time of year. I am an unabashed and unrepentant lover of Christmas time, in all
of its glorious corniness. I love Christmas carols, Christmas parties, but most
of all Christmas Day. I still remember one special year in my early teens when
I was overcome with Christmas spirit, feeling so good about the season and just
general happiness that I wondered at my sanity. This feeling lasted until well
after Christmas and no, to all you cynics out there, the feelings were not chemically
assisted.
Every year since then has been an
attempt to recapture fleeting glimpses of that feeling (which may have involved
certain adult beverages). Most years I get it in bits and pieces, usually
associated with time I spend with my family and friends. My wife and kids
smile, good naturedly, when I start holding forth about Christmas because they
know how important it is to me. I know there are those raging elements and
hipsters out there that bemoan what modern Christmas has evolved to. Some say
it’s overly commercialized or others not properly religious.
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| Best Part About this Christmas! |
There are always those elements in
society – Grinches for lack of a better term. People so unhappy with their own
lives or criminally self-important, that they target traditions that bring
happiness to others for scorn. I could not care less about these self-important
gas bags. There is nothing more enjoyable in life than being around people you
love and actually taking some time out of the all too busy lives we all lead to
just simply be together. Merry Christmas and may you find time to be with the
ones you love.
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