CHRISTMAS IS FOR SALE
Everytime I spent Christmas I always remember when I was a child. I used to visit my godfathers and godmothers house to ask for a gift or money. Every children do the same thing. But there is something that I have notice in their house, theres a lot of things wrapped in a colorful chritmas wrapper under their christmas tree. Things that make me confuse and I ask myself why is it theres a need for gift giving every christmas and why did it everyday? My mother explain to me that christian people traditionally celebrated christmas usually with preparation including food, house decors and christmas presence in a form of cash and mostly in kind. As early as September in every year people started to make a countdown for their preparation period. But my question have not been answered by my mother’s explanation.
Years pass by, It was christmas eve when I remember those usual tradition I have been experienced. I was already 17 year old and I realize I am no longer a child anymore and the saddest point here is I’m not able to do the same thing I was doing every christmas when I was a child.
Many years had pass, I have been blessed with a family and children of my own. Every christmas my children do also the same thing I did. They visit to their grandparents house and blessed but ofcourse not to mention the importance of the christmas presence they expected to receive from them. And like my grandparents I’m now also have a plenty of grandchilds which every christmas visited me to ask for a gift also. It is fun to have them atleast at this point of time wearing their best christmas dresses and shoes. Children will get sad feelings if they did not receive any gifts or money as well as a parents like us, it seems like the christmas will be postponed if we don’t have enough money to buy everything we need to overcome the seasons. We are preparing for a lot of things to celebrate the christmas completely as we plan for it. We are rushing everything to make it perfect. But on the contrary I realize that celebrating christmas every year of my life in a traditional way since then is too mush wasting of money, effort and time. It is just because Christmas is being for sale everytime we celebrated it the same way. It is not about money nor a material thing that makes us happy during this season, but it’s about simplicity of having God in our lives that bring us joyous christmas at all. We are preparing for everything but yet were not preparing ourselves for the birthday celebrator to give him gifts that He wanted us to offer for Him, our faith, acceptance and whole life. Therefore Christmas for me is for sale in exchange for the most important thing, God.
